Bloomington Base Ball Club

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Nick Name	Bloomington
Earliest Known Date	1865
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Location	Bloomington, IL, United States
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Nine Class	Senior
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Description	Bloomington Pantagraph May 22, 1865: "our young men have concluded to form a Base Ball Club..." Same, June 5, 1865: H. A. Ewing, president, announces: "The Bloomington Base Ball Club will meet for practice at their grounds near the 5th Ward School House..." On August 7th this club defeated the Railroad Club 41-18. Same Aug. 9, 1865 gives the box score. Same Sept. 18, 1865 reports the Bloomington played the Railroad for "the championship of McLean County," with the Bloomington winning 45-12. Same Sept. 8, 1865 gives the box score, with players' names, of a game between the Bloomington club and the Excelsior of Chicago. The Rockford Weekly Register-Gazette, June 30, 1866, reports on the Rockford Baseball Tournament. The Bloomington Base Ball Club of Bloomington finished 2nd in the tournament, beating (among others) the Cream City club of Milwaukee 23 to 20. The same club lost to a Chicago team at the September 1866 baseball tournament in Bloomington. See the Springfield Illinois State Register, Sept. 10, Sept. 13, 1866. The "Star" club of Bloomington also played in this tournament. The same club attended the Northwest Base Ball Convention in Chicago that December. See the Cleveland Leader, Dec. 22, 1866, picking up a Chicago Tribune article. According to the New York Clipper article on this convention, Jan. 5, 1867, the club was organized May 28, 1865, and had 90 members. G. W. Lackey and C. J. Roe were its delegates to this convention. Robert D. Sampson, "Fields of Battle: The Problem of Base Ball Playing Space in Post Civil War Illinois," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, vol. 110 Nos 3/4 (2017), 283-304, has much on this club and its early history.
Sources	The Bloomington Pantagraph June 5, 1865. The Rockford Weekly Register-Gazette, June 30, 1866
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Win/Loss Records As Far As We Now Know

Warning: Users should not rely on a team's won-loss record as a reflection of its "standing" among all base ball clubs. Team schedules were not balanced, and a good record against mostly weak opponents does not signify a leading club.

Year	Games	Wins	Losses	Ties
1866	1 Played	1 Won	0 Lost	0 Tied
1867	1 Played	0 Won	1 Lost	0 Tied

Ballgames

Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1866-06-27	Rockford		IL	Bloomington Base Ball Club	Atlantic Club of Chicago	22 - 17		Bob Sampson
Ballgame	1867-09	Chicago		IL	Excelsior Club of Chicago	Bloomington Base Ball Club	25 - 17		Bob Sampson

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Field	Years	Edit Association with Club
Bloomington Base Ball Club Grounds	1860s

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