Old San Diego Club
| Nick Name | Old San Diego |
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| Earliest Known Date | 1871 |
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| Location | San Diego, CA, United States |
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| Nine Class | Senior |
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| Description | The first known baseball game played in San Diego took place in 1871. At the time, the city’s population stood at about 2300, and the county court house was still in Old Town. Baseball itself was still in its relative infancy, and the citizenry, on the whole, was blessedly ignorant of the game.2 Events began, humbly enough, with an announcement in the May 3, 1871 issue of the fledgling San Diego Union that there was ” a movement on foot to organize baseball” in the town.3 In the next two months, there was a veritable flurry of baseball activity. During that time, San Diego’s first three “base ball” clubs were organized; they were the Lone Star Club, the Old San Diego Club, and for the younger players, the Young Americans Club. A total of perhaps six games were played that first year.4 Most if not all games were played on Saturdays in Lockling Square, a downtown vacant lot bounded by C, D (Broadway), Sixth, and Seventh Streets.5 Unfortunately, detailed records of these earliest games do not now exist, if indeed they were ever recorded. Most of the players’ names appear in brief news accounts; unknown, however, are the specific rules they played under, the nature of the uniforms they wore (if any), and the size and spirit of the crowd.6 The last notice given of baseball that year was on July 13; After that date, the subject was forgotten until the following year. |
| Sources | Frank Norris, "San Diego Baseball," Journal of San Diego History (Winter 1984) |
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| Has Source On Hand | No |
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| Query | d San Dieg Edit with form to add a query |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
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| Entered by | Bruce Allardice |
| First in Location | San Diego, CA |
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