John W. Dickens

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Date of Birth	Thursday, June 24, 1841
Date of Death	Tuesday, October 17, 1916

Biography

John Dickens was a native of England who, after emigrating to the United States, joined the Union Army and settled in Nashville after the war. Dickens was the first president of the Cumberland Base Ball Club, but later moved to Louisville, Kentucky. See http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/f4bd13cc for his biography in the SABR Baseball Biography Project

Sources

"Great Match Base Ball Game." Daily Union and American [Nashville, TN], Aug. 1, 1866, 3. Web Chronicling America, Mar. 22, 2014. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038519/1866-08-01/ed-1/seq-3/

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Pitcher and founding president of the Cumberland Base Ball Club.

His name is spelled "Dickins" in the SABR biography.

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Club	Years	Roles	Edit Association with Player
Cumberland Base Ball Club of Nashville	1866	Founder, Initial Officer

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