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- {{All Fields|Country=United States|State=NY|City=Albany}}57 bytes (9 words) - 13:31, 10 February 2013
- {{All Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=Albany}}56 bytes (9 words) - 13:31, 10 February 2013
- {{All Clubs|Country=United States|State=NY|City=Albany}}56 bytes (9 words) - 13:31, 10 February 2013
- {{Firsts|Country=United States|State=NY|City=Albany}}53 bytes (8 words) - 13:31, 10 February 2013
- {{All Fields|Country=United States|State=NY|City=East Albany}}62 bytes (10 words) - 16:28, 25 May 2013
- {{All Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=East Albany}}61 bytes (10 words) - 16:28, 25 May 2013
- {{All Clubs|Country=United States|State=NY|City=East Albany}}61 bytes (10 words) - 16:28, 25 May 2013
- {{Firsts|Country=United States|State=NY|City=East Albany}}58 bytes (9 words) - 16:28, 25 May 2013
- {{All Fields|Country=United States|State=NY|City=E. Albany}}60 bytes (10 words) - 13:54, 10 February 2013
- {{All Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=E. Albany}}59 bytes (10 words) - 13:54, 10 February 2013
- {{All Clubs|Country=United States|State=NY|City=E. Albany}}59 bytes (10 words) - 13:54, 10 February 2013
- {{Firsts|Country=United States|State=NY|City=E. Albany}}56 bytes (9 words) - 13:54, 10 February 2013
- {{All Predecessor Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=Albany}}68 bytes (10 words) - 13:31, 10 February 2013
- {{All Predecessor Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=East Albany}}73 bytes (11 words) - 16:28, 25 May 2013
- {{All Predecessor Games|Country=United States|State=NY|City=E. Albany}}71 bytes (11 words) - 13:54, 10 February 2013
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- |Name=Excelsior Club of Albany |First Newspaper Mention=1856/05/12579 bytes (87 words) - 16:51, 6 June 2020
- |Name=Roanoke Jr. Club of Albany v Young Champion Club of Albany on 30 June 1860 |State=NY594 bytes (93 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2015
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Capitol City Club of Albany on 5 September 1860 |State=NY644 bytes (99 words) - 14:59, 29 November 2015
- |Name=Excelsior Club of Albany v Empire Club of Albany in July 1856 |State=NY835 bytes (132 words) - 16:25, 19 May 2018
- |Name=in Albany in 1882 |City=Albany659 bytes (98 words) - 21:51, 19 September 2014
- |Name=Excelsior Club of Albany v Empire Club of Albany on 10 June 1856 |State=NY998 bytes (155 words) - 16:21, 16 May 2020
- |Name=Albany v Excelsior Club of West Troy in Albany on 9 July 1860 |Field=Albany grounds845 bytes (124 words) - 07:27, 26 May 2013
- |Name=Albany Cricket Grounds |State=NY327 bytes (48 words) - 05:27, 4 April 2020
- |Headline=Ball Playing competes with fencing in camp |Location=NY791 bytes (114 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Name=In Albany in 1837 |NY Rules=No - Predecessor879 bytes (126 words) - 14:08, 27 February 2024
- |Name=National Club of Albany |First Newspaper Mention=1864/05/06438 bytes (64 words) - 17:39, 6 June 2020
- |State=NY ...p>The Albany <em>Daily Argus</em>, Aug. 15, 1868 has the Knickerbockers of Albany beating the Mohegans of Schoharie 67-15.</p>603 bytes (87 words) - 11:31, 7 May 2018
- |Name=Hickory Club of East Albany |State=NY916 bytes (137 words) - 06:16, 30 June 2021
- |State=NY ...p>The Albany <em>Daily Argus</em>, Aug. 11, 1869 has the Nationals of Albany playing the Independents of Amsterdam "this afternoon".</p>625 bytes (89 words) - 11:31, 7 May 2018
- |Headline=Excelsior Base Ball Club Forms in Albany NY |Location=NY State,967 bytes (151 words) - 19:00, 14 October 2015
- |Name=Beaverwyck Club of Albany v Beaverwyck Club of Albany in 1860 |State=NY1 KB (181 words) - 19:13, 7 July 2020
- |Name=Olympic Club of Albany, NY |State=NY670 bytes (95 words) - 12:12, 3 July 2021
- |Name=Eureka Club of Albany, NY |State=NY654 bytes (93 words) - 06:09, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Homeolithics of Corvallis v Juniors of Salem in June 1875 |City=Albany794 bytes (116 words) - 21:54, 19 September 2014
- |Name=Bachelors Club of Albany |State=NY1 KB (174 words) - 06:38, 7 September 2019
- |State=NY ...The <em>Daily Albany Argus</em>, Sept. 14, 1867 reports that the Eagles of Albany defeated the Actives of Greenbush 51-33.</p>891 bytes (132 words) - 05:16, 28 June 2021
- |Name=Married v Single in Albany on 26 August 1861 |State=NY853 bytes (133 words) - 16:27, 2 April 2024
- |Headline=Clerks Take on Clerks in Albany, Field 16-Player Teams |Location=NY State,854 bytes (136 words) - 18:29, 14 October 2015
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Capitol City Club of Albany on 28 August 1860 |State=NY948 bytes (151 words) - 14:20, 10 May 2018
- |Name=West Troy v Knickerbocker Club of Albany on 18 August 1859 |State=NY812 bytes (126 words) - 17:21, 3 April 2024
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Champion Club of Albany on 9 June 1859 |State=NY1 KB (194 words) - 16:25, 2 April 2024
- |Name=Athletic Club of Albany |State=NY858 bytes (126 words) - 06:01, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Empire Club of Albany |State=NY697 bytes (111 words) - 12:24, 28 December 2015
- |Name=Knickerbocker Club of Albany |State=NY618 bytes (91 words) - 17:17, 6 June 2020
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Champion Club of Albany on 9 June 1859 |State=NY1 KB (195 words) - 23:31, 1 February 2016
- |Name=Star Club of Waterford v Frank Queen Club of Albany on 4 September 1863 |State=NY484 bytes (72 words) - 12:23, 16 February 2024
- |Name=Mazeppa Club of Albany |State=NY670 bytes (95 words) - 06:03, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Long Club of Albany |State=NY664 bytes (95 words) - 06:02, 30 June 2021
- |Name=in New Albany in February 1861 |State=IN1 KB (169 words) - 07:09, 28 August 2022
- |Name=Rathbone Club of Albany |State=NY655 bytes (92 words) - 06:08, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Segarmakers Club of Albany |State=NY661 bytes (92 words) - 06:07, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Champion Club of Albany on 24 May 1860 |State=NY1 KB (171 words) - 14:20, 10 May 2018
- |Name=Argus Club of Albany |State=NY658 bytes (94 words) - 06:10, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Live Oak Club of Albany |State=NY983 bytes (151 words) - 06:04, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Weed, Parsons and Co. Club of Albany |State=NY687 bytes (99 words) - 06:11, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Gotham Jr. Club of New York v Active Club of Albany on 29 November 1860 |State=NY486 bytes (76 words) - 08:23, 24 December 2023
- |Name=Saw Your Leg Off Club of Albany |State=NY731 bytes (110 words) - 06:12, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Knickerbocker Club of Albany v Conqueror Club of West Troy on 17 October 1863 |State=NY561 bytes (80 words) - 13:23, 16 February 2024
- |State=NY ...tedly attended a game between the Victory Club of Troy and the Albany Club in 1860.</p>684 bytes (105 words) - 18:30, 6 June 2020
- |Name=Legal Tender Club of Albany |State=NY704 bytes (103 words) - 06:13, 30 June 2021
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Club of Pittsfield on 24 October 1859 |State=NY1 KB (167 words) - 05:47, 30 June 2020
- |Name=In Albany in 1854 |NY Rules=No - Predecessor655 bytes (87 words) - 14:09, 27 February 2024
- |Name=Little Mac Club of Albany |State=NY474 bytes (69 words) - 11:34, 10 April 2024
- |Name=Knickerbocker Club of Albany v Victory Club of Troy on 14 July 1862 |State=NY971 bytes (156 words) - 06:15, 7 February 2024
- |Headline=Ball Played at Albany During War |State=NY954 bytes (147 words) - 18:20, 19 April 2020
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Excelsior Club of West Troy on 30 August 1860 |City=Albany1 KB (190 words) - 07:27, 26 May 2013
- |Headline=Cricket Clubs Form in Upstate NY ...organized cricket teams appeared in Albany, Troy and Schenectady, New York in 1839."</p>697 bytes (105 words) - 17:45, 6 September 2012
- |Name=Rivals Club of Albany |State=NY742 bytes (111 words) - 12:31, 28 December 2015
- |State=NY |Description=<p>The <em>Albany Morning Express</em>, April 7, 1860: "A new base ball club was formed Tuesd1 KB (171 words) - 16:24, 6 June 2020
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany |State=NY878 bytes (136 words) - 15:50, 6 June 2020
- |State=NY ...2, 1865 reports that the Washington Club of Troy defeated the Nationals of Albany 25-23.</p>1 KB (154 words) - 11:53, 24 June 2021
- |Name=Highlander Club of Albany |State=NY669 bytes (93 words) - 08:44, 18 April 2021
- |Name=Nepperstein Club of Albany |State=NY676 bytes (95 words) - 15:56, 21 February 2022
- |Name=Mohawk Club of Albany |State=NY666 bytes (95 words) - 12:00, 24 June 2021
- |State=NY ...867 in an article on unusual baseball club titles, report that on the 12th in Lansingburgh, the "Get Up and Gets" of Troy will play the "Hope and Go Cons681 bytes (109 words) - 06:58, 12 May 2018
- |Name=Traviats Club of Albany |State=NY668 bytes (95 words) - 12:01, 24 June 2021
- |City=Albany |State=NY621 bytes (97 words) - 07:02, 26 May 2013
- |Name=Junior Mutuals of Albany |State=NY676 bytes (96 words) - 08:12, 27 June 2021
- |State=NY ...867 in an article on unusual baseball club titles, report that on the 12th in Lansingburgh, the "Get Up and Gets" of Troy will play the "Hope and Go Cons719 bytes (110 words) - 06:59, 12 May 2018
- |Name=Champion Club of Albany v Priam Club of Troy on 24 August 1860 |State=NY1 KB (186 words) - 10:51, 13 August 2017
- |State=NY |Description=<p>The <em>Daily Albany Argus</em>, Aug. 12, 1867: Sans Souci Club of Bloodville 42, Independent of955 bytes (144 words) - 17:14, 4 July 2021
- |Name=Base Ball in Albany on 10 June 1856 |City=Albany2 KB (259 words) - 10:19, 10 February 2013
- |State=NY |Description=<p>near Late George, c. 60 mi. north of Albany</p>465 bytes (66 words) - 05:31, 8 December 2015
- |NY Rules=Likely ...em>Daily Ledger</em> April, 4, 1863, reprints a letter from a soldier in Corinth, MS, dated March 29, 1863, saying that yesterday a base ball team f903 bytes (133 words) - 20:01, 27 September 2020
- |Name=Utica Club of Utica v Knickerbocker Club of Albany on 27 August 1862 |State=NY1 KB (214 words) - 09:51, 25 March 2024
- |Name=Victory Club of Troy v Albany on 30 June 1860 |State=NY3 KB (466 words) - 07:27, 26 May 2013
- |Name=Champion Club of Yorkville, NY |State=NY680 bytes (105 words) - 15:51, 6 June 2020
- |Name=National Excelsior Club of Philadelphia v Bachelors Club of Albany on 4 October 1866 |NY Rules=Yes1 KB (144 words) - 20:01, 9 January 2022
- ...ation (Capital Area table) shows Pittsfield losing to the Champion Club of Albany, 11-8, on October 24, 1859.</p> ...n Club played by NY rules, and in fact scheduled a game using the fly game in September 1859.</p>1 KB (187 words) - 07:18, 5 February 2022
- |Name=Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860 |State=NY2 KB (311 words) - 06:59, 6 December 2015
- |Name=Pythian Club of Philadelphia v Bachelors Club of Albany on 3 October 1866 |NY Rules=Yes1 KB (142 words) - 20:01, 9 January 2022
- |State=NY |Sources=<p>The Albany <em>Argus</em>, Oct. 10, 1870</p>707 bytes (97 words) - 17:15, 4 July 2021
- |State=NY ...he lovers of this game are making extensive preparations to become skilled in the mysteries of the game."</p>1 KB (244 words) - 19:08, 14 October 2015
- |Location=NY State, |State=NY822 bytes (130 words) - 19:14, 14 October 2015
- |State=NY |Sources=<p>NYSM 600729 and NYSM 600805 c. twenty miles south of Albany</p>776 bytes (110 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2022
- |Name=Victory Club of Troy v Beaverwyck Club of Albany on 11 July 1860 |State=NY2 KB (384 words) - 15:32, 29 December 2015
- |Name=Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 5 October 1860 |State=NY1 KB (207 words) - 07:28, 26 May 2013
- <p>A: Dancing is a favorite of both sexes. Sleigh-riding in winter, and skating, playing ball (of which there are several different gam ...prehensive System of Geography</u> (Charles R. and George Webster, Albany NY) 1796), page 128. Provided by John Thorn, 2/17/2008 email.</p>665 bytes (101 words) - 17:34, 6 September 2012
- |Field=Excelsior grounds near the end of the “Y” on the Albany Northern Railroad |City=Albany1 KB (223 words) - 07:26, 26 May 2013
- {{Other First |Name=First Tour Ever- Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip.2 KB (302 words) - 11:43, 16 November 2020
- ...=Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip. . ."First Tour Ever? First $500 Player Ever? |Location=Western New York, NY State,2 KB (343 words) - 18:38, 14 October 2015
- |State=NY ...tion=<p>A new Base Ball Club, called the "Independent," has been organized in Plattsburgh, with the following officers: President, E. Holcomb; Vice Presi1 KB (189 words) - 08:44, 3 April 2022
- |State=NY |NY Rules=Likely1 KB (178 words) - 08:20, 3 March 2024
- |State=NY .../em>, Oct. 1, 1866, lists the teams in the base ball tournament at Auburn, NY. The teams included the Hobart College of Geneva, Frontenac of Springport,908 bytes (140 words) - 12:40, 10 May 2018
- ...e lad seems to be hurling something and other boys are arranged around him in a pattern suspiciously like those of baseball-type games." Tom surmises tha ...s Reminiscences</span> (1845), Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany NY. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-2 KB (311 words) - 11:32, 6 February 2014
- |Name=in Saranac Lake in 1891 |State=NY1 KB (190 words) - 16:15, 16 August 2022
- |Headline=Pupil in Class Seen to "Scamper like a Boy at Bass-ball" |State=NY1 KB (213 words) - 18:18, 14 October 2015
- ...ependent NY Battery] and Battery L. Latter beaten 13 to 6. Officers played in afternoon.” And another is recorded on the 30th.</p> |Sources=<p>Ritchie, "Four Years in the First New York Light Artillery" pp 4, 109, 111, 156</p>1 KB (174 words) - 06:12, 3 January 2023
- |State=NY ...pril 1859, but this is the first game account that we know of. It is found in the baseball clippings collection at the Onondaga Hist Assn.</p>1 KB (254 words) - 16:28, 6 June 2020
- |State=NY ...ption=<p>Peverelly [page 86] reports that the "Preams" [Priams] played the Albany Knickerbockers on 9/28/1860, losing 28-24.</p>815 bytes (115 words) - 10:11, 28 June 2021
- |State=NY |City=Albany3 KB (547 words) - 11:51, 20 January 2022
- |Headline=Round Ball, Old Cat Played in Northwest MA Town ...is in the NW corner of the commonwealth, and about 55 miles east of Albany NY.</p>1 KB (201 words) - 07:08, 29 January 2013
- |Name=Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 26 October 1859 |State=NY6 KB (1,131 words) - 20:55, 1 February 2016
- |Headline=Two NY Regiments Play “Grand Game on the Parade Ground” in VA ...ooks 6/27/09 via “forty-ninth new” search. The regiment formed in the Buffalo area, and was at Falmouth VA on April 18.</p>1 KB (172 words) - 10:19, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=MA Boy Played One Old Cat, Base Ball in Early Childhood ...and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into service to ride the horse to plough1 KB (208 words) - 07:58, 31 January 2020
- |Headline=Awaiting Deployment to Washington, the 44th NY Plays Ball Evenings ...1861 was given up to the enlisted men. They played ball in the morning and in the afternoon organized a burlesque parade which was very comical” [p2 KB (262 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS |State=NY2 KB (307 words) - 18:17, 14 October 2015
- |State=NY ...ribed. Dr. Jones responded very handsomely. The strangers then left for Albany, and will be at Niagara to-day.”)</p> <p>(<i>Porter’s Spirit of the Ti4 KB (681 words) - 07:27, 26 May 2013
- |Headline=Cricket Becoming "The National Game" in US: "Considerable Progress" Seen |State=ny2 KB (272 words) - 18:28, 14 October 2015
- |Headline=Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village <p>"Three base ball clubs were formed in this town, in 1860 and 1861. . . . They were sustained with increasing interest until 1861 KB (238 words) - 18:37, 14 October 2015
- ...in the corps was the game of base ball. There were many excellent players in the different regiments, and it was common for the ball-players of one regi ...<sup>th</sup> NY was in winter camp at White Oak Church, near Falmouth VA, in 1862-63. Stevens was a regimental surgeon.</p>2 KB (300 words) - 10:09, 16 June 2019
- |State=NY ...erms of their good treatment. On Friday morning (26th) they left for Albany to play a match with the Knickerbocker club, of Sturgeondom.”)</p>2 KB (304 words) - 08:20, 7 February 2024
- |Headline=New Bats and Balls Arrive, But 91st NY Loses Again ...3 in the Maryland Manuscript Collection [Keay spent some of 1865 stationed in Baltimore].</p>2 KB (283 words) - 10:10, 16 June 2019
- |Headline=<i>New York Tribune</i> Compares the NY "Baby" Game and NE Game |State=NY3 KB (520 words) - 18:33, 14 October 2015
- ...stylish horse and gig over our wickets, as many took a malicious pleasure in doing, but turned aside, with a pleasant smile . . . ."</p> ...n Lenox MA, about 7 miles S of Pittsfield, and about 35 miles SE of Albany NY. </p>2 KB (271 words) - 10:13, 8 January 2022
- |Text=<p>"Ball was a common diversion in Vermont while I lived there; yet I never became proficient at it, probably ...eley, born in New Hampshire in 1811, was apprenticed a Poultney VT printer in about 1825.</p>2 KB (280 words) - 13:48, 29 January 2020
- |State=NY ...] class teams were competing at Union, setting the stage for the College's first know extra-mural game.</p>3 KB (419 words) - 12:00, 3 July 2021
- |Description=<p>From Protoball Entry #1860.43 –- Three Ball Clubs Form in VT Village</p> <p>"Three base ball clubs were formed in this town, in 1860 and 1861. . . . They were sustained with increasing interest until 1862 KB (320 words) - 15:44, 29 March 2022
- ...to the number of players. Only one old cat continues to be commonly played in the 21st century.</p> ...the base. The striker would also be put out if the struck ball were caught in the air, or if they swung three times at the giver's deliveries and missed.7 KB (1,149 words) - 07:35, 15 June 2023
- |State=NY |Text=<p>(summarizing rules of the Sabbath in the New Netherland colony)</p>5 KB (840 words) - 11:12, 24 September 2018
- |State=NY ...ad from the start, and in the sixth inning led by a score of 37 to 24. But in the seventh inning the Brooklyn party pulled up and were rapidly gaining gr6 KB (1,012 words) - 18:44, 14 October 2015
- {{Other First |Name=First Intercollegiate Game by Association Rules3 KB (536 words) - 11:44, 16 November 2020
- |State=NY ...Club is entitled to the distinction of being perhaps the ‘first nine in America.’ “)</p>6 KB (1,005 words) - 13:46, 13 March 2024
- |State=NY ...not to be implicated.”)</p><p>(NYT (14): [long description])</p><p>(NDA: “In the great match between the Atlantics and Excelsiors, of Brooklyn, for the5 KB (764 words) - 13:33, 13 September 2014
- |State=NY ...as much gratification in the individual successes of the Niagara’s men as in their own. Yet another, and still more solid consolation, is derived fro8 KB (1,328 words) - 07:30, 26 May 2013
- ...A gentle and amiable man, and a thoroughly exacting researcher, Craig had in 2007 contacted Protoball to discuss his idea of compiling, over time, all t ...and tabulating early game accounts that define the evolution of base ball in the 1850s and 1860s.18 KB (2,894 words) - 08:42, 7 May 2020
- | <p>Albany, N.Y.</p> <p>Cricket Ground</p> ...s)</p> <p>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “Our Albany friends have ‘set the ball in motion.’ A return match … came off a week or two since …”)</p>85 KB (14,045 words) - 08:18, 29 April 2016
- ...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...question is: was Manhattan Island really devoid of open space for baseball in the 1840s and 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far no22 KB (3,757 words) - 07:07, 4 January 2023
- ...ntroduction on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history. ''' Available Playing Space in the 1840s and 1850s'''25 KB (4,328 words) - 16:57, 31 October 2022
- ...text-decoration: underline;">Finding Elysian Fields Data on Protoball.org (In preparation</span>)'''</p> <p style="text-align: left;">[] Chapter 3, "Escape from the City," in Tom Gilbert's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">How Baseball27 KB (4,280 words) - 06:45, 27 December 2022
- ...fore another military man, one Abner Doubleday allegedly invented the game in the sleepy east central New York village of Cooperstown.</p> ...s march might have been fifteen miles, to locate a spot flat enough to get in the game. Clearly this game meant something more to Henry Dearborn and his92 KB (15,359 words) - 17:54, 9 February 2013
- ...o Invented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p> ...t Club. The New Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their three innings. Brooklyn scored 22 and of course came off winners.942 KB (153,437 words) - 19:26, 1 May 2016