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Base Ball Club Forms in Augusta GA: Town Ball Played Also/Instead

Salience Noteworthy
Location Georgia
City/State/Country: Augusta, GA, United States
Game Town Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"Baseball Club formed in Augusta in 1859," unidentified clipping at the Giamatti Research Center, Cooperstown, September 15, 1985. Per Millen note # 42.

"Town Ball. - On the 24th ult., the young men of Augusta, Ga., met on the Parade Ground, and organized themselves in two parties for enjoying a friendly game at this hearty game." They played two innings, and "W.D.'s side scored 43, squeezing the peaches on P. B.'s, who managed only 19. 

Query: Is there any indication that Association rules were used by the reported club?

From another source: The Daily Chronicle and Sentinal [Augusta?] in 1860 reported that the Base Ball Club of Augusta had formed the previous year. It reported on this "noble and manly game" as played on November 7, 1860"

"There were 6 innings. Doughty's side made 32 rounds; Russell's side made 20 rounds."

 

Sources

The New York Clipper (date and page omitted; date inferred from scrapbook placement). Facsimile from page 25 (column 3, third story) of a Mears Collection scrapbook.

From an unidentified clipping marked [in hand] "September 15, 1985 Augusta GA," in the Origins file at the Giamatti Center of the Hall of Fame.

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Submitted by Craig Waff
Submission Note September 2008



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