Omega Club of Andover v Olympic Cricket Club of Andover on 23 May 1860
| Date of Game | Wednesday, May 23, 1860 |
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| Location | Andover, MA, United States |
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| Home Team | Omega Club of Andover |
| Away Team | Add Club Page Olympic Cricket Club of Andover |
| Score | 70 - 100 |
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| Innings | 9 |
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| NY Rules | No - Predecessor |
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| Description | Andover MA. Omega Base Ball Club and Olympic Cricket Club of that locality played a match of baseball on the 23rd (May) according to the Massachusetts rules, which excited no inconsiderable interest. The play, for juveniles, was excellent and much applauded by many spectators present. The score giving the victory to the cricket club by 30 runs." |
| Sources | New York Clipper, 16 June 1860 |
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| Comment | Charles Phelps Taft (class of 1860) sat for one term in Congress and helped his brother, William Howard Taft, win the U. S. Presidency. That said, he was best known in baseball circles as majority owner of the Chicago Cubs from 1914 until he sold the team to William Wrigley in 1916. Baseball was a passion Taft discovered as a student at Andover, as he wrote to his father in 1860: "We have gotten up a first rate Base Ball Club and play every evening after prayers. There is considerably more fun in it than there is in cricket…Yesterday afternoon we had quite a nice game of Base Ball between the two clubs or rather the first eleven (sic) of each club. Somehow or other I was chosen from our club. It must have been by mistake. When we quit playing the other side was 44 to our 55. The game is 100. It is going to be continued next Saturday." https://athletics.andover.edu/teams/bbbv/alumni Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Found by | Brian Sheehy |
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