In Corvallis in 1856
| Date of Game | 1856 |
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| Location | Corvallis, OR, United States |
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| Innings | 9 |
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| NY Rules | Yes |
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| Description | A Medford resident (R. Stinnett) claimed to have organized Oregon’s first baseball team in Corvallis in 1856, ten years before the Pioneers formed. “No, it wasn’t ‘town ball’ we played, but the original game of baseball,” he told the Medford Mail Tribune in 1910. Their only equipment was a bat whittled from native wood and a ball that at first was rubber and later was made of yarn covered in buckskin with a rubber center. “That ball was the most valuable piece of property belonging to the club,” he added. “If in playing in open fields, as we did in those days, the ball was ‘lost,’ the game was called until the players, spectators and even the umpire had searched until they found it.” See Oregon Daily Journal, August 4, 1910. There's no independent verification of this claim. The man is probably Reuben Stennett, born circa 1830 in Tennessee, who lived in Medford in 1910. |
| Sources | Oregon Daily Journal, August 4, 1910 |
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| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
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| Entered by | Bruce Allardice |
| First in Location | OR |
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