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{{Club
|Coordinates=39.0997265, -94.57856670000001
|Name=Antelope Base Ball Club of Kansas City
|Club Name=Antelopes
|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1866/07/26
|Is Foundation Date=Yes
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Country=United States
|State=MO
|City=Kansas City
|Nine Class=Senior
|Description=<p>A meeting of the &ldquo;Antelope&rdquo; Base Ball Club was held last evening and ten new members admitted. The work goes bravely on, and we hope this club is now fully and permanently organized. They will play their first game next Tuesday on their grounds in the Addition, east of McGee street.</p>
<p>-Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, July 26, 1866</p>
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<p>Yesterday being the regular day for field exercise, the &ldquo;Antelopes&rdquo; played another game of base ball. They are visibly in this manly sport, and will soon &ldquo;hold their own&rdquo; with some clubs of much longer standing. Below we give the game, as taken from the scorer's book...</p>
<p>They will play another game on Friday. We understand they play a match game with the &ldquo;Hope&rdquo; club September 7<sup>th</sup>, and we look for quite and excitement among base ball players.</p>
<p>-Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, August 15, 1866</p>
<p>The&nbsp;<em>Kansas City Star</em>, June 4, 1908, ran a reminiscence article headlined: "We had a great team in '66. The Antelopes then were the pride of the base ball fans." The Kansas City Journal, Oct. 22, 1893, lists the Antelopes as the first baseball club in that city.</p>
<p>The&nbsp;<em>Kansas City Times</em>&nbsp;April 13, 1964 reports that the Antelope Club was organized July, 1866 with attorney D. S. Twitchell as president. [BA]</p>
<p>Kansas City MO's 1860 pop. was about 4400, and its 1870 pop. was about 32,250.</p>
|Sources=<p>Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, July 26, 1866</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Comment=<p>The&nbsp;<em>Kansas City Times</em>&nbsp;April 13, 1964 reports that the Antelope Club was organized July, 1866 with attorney D. S. Twitchell as president. Same Deatherage, "Early History of Greater Kansas City" p. 544.</p>
<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Clipper</em>, Sept. 22, 1866 gives a box score, with players names, of a game on the 7th between the Antelopes and the Hope.&nbsp;</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Jeffrey Kittel
|Entered by=Jeffrey Kittel
|Society=Missouri Project
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}