Plowboys Club of Downers Grove

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Nick Name	Plowboys
Earliest Known Date	July 1858
Last Known Game
Location	Downers Grove, IL, United States
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Description	The Plowboys of Downers Grove, Du Page County, in what is now the Chicago suburbs, played a Chicago team July 7, 1858. “Base Ball Match,” Chicago Daily Press and Tribune, vol. 12 number 6 (Thursday, July 8, 1858), page 1 column 4. It is presumed the game was played under the NY rules, as the Chicago team played under such rules. This Plow Boys Club existed at least through 1870. See the Naperville Clarion, June 15, 22, 1870.
Sources	Chicago Daily Press and Tribune, vol. 12 number 6 (Thursday, July 8, 1858)
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Comment	Of the Plow Boys--I can only find three images, all, later in life. Of the three, only Emerson Otis Stanley (1828-1912) can for certain be said to have played baseball with the Plow Boys. He was a farmer. The others are Jordan James Cole (1833-1901), later captain in the Union army and mayor of Downers Grove, and Theodore Smith Rogers (1831-1917), County Sheriff, who married Emerson Stanley's sister. The two images are from ancestry.com, the third, FindaGrave. I can only prove 4 games the Plow Boys played--1858 in Chicago, 1859 against Danby, 1867 against Fullersburg and 1870 against Naperville. Edit with form to add a comment
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Win/Loss Records As Far As We Now Know

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Year	Games	Wins	Losses	Ties
1858	1 Played	0 Won	0 Lost	0 Tied
1859	1 Played	0 Won	0 Lost	0 Tied

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Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1858-07-07	Chicago		IL	Union Club of Chicago	Plowboys Club of Downers Grove		Chicago, IL	Craig Waff
Ballgame	1859-06-18	Danby		IL	Club of Danby, IL	Plowboys Club of Downers Grove		Danby, IL	Bruce Allardice

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