Penfield Club of Oberlin College

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Nick Name	Penfield
Earliest Known Date	1865
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Location	Oberlin, OH, United States
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Nine Class	Senior
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Description	Morris et. al., "Base Ball Pioneers. 1850-1870," p. 126, notes that the Penfield Club of Oberlin College defeated the Forest City BBC of Cleveland, 67-28, on Oct. 20, 1865 in Cleveland. In a game the next year, Forest City defeated the Penfield. David Zang's bio of Fleetwood Walker, pp. 20-22, says the Oberlin team had a black 1st baseman in 1865, making it the first multiracial team we know of. William Castle of Hawaii, who attended Oberlin 1864-66, recalled in his memoirs he played baseball there and introduced the "new" game to Hawaii. The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, vol. 21, no. 8, has two reminiscences of "Early Baseball" at Oberlin. Says the Penfield club was formed in the fall of 1865 and took its name after the local mfr who supplied them with bats. Further, that there was among the students a Columbus Cricket Club which that fall switched to playing 11-a-side baseball.
Sources	Morris et al., "Baseball Pioneers: 1850-1870," p. 126 The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, vol. 21, no. 8
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Year	Games	Wins	Losses	Ties
1865	1 Played	1 Won	0 Lost	0 Tied

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Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1865-10-20	Cleveland		OH	Forest City Base Ball Club of Cleveland	Penfield Club of Oberlin College	28 - 67	Cleveland, OH

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