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|Name=Champion Club of New York v Champion Club of Albany on 4 July 1860 |City=Albany

...land, which pre-dates what we know as base ball. The fields were developed by Col. John Stevens as a public amusement area in the late 1820s and early 18 ...the Stevens Family was welcoming of the ball clubs and their usage of the grounds until the large championship matches of 1865 upset that arrangement.</div>

In October, not least because of revealing research by SABR's Jonathan Popovich, Origins and 19th Century communities were moved t ...e</span>: what does EF tell us about the role of unavailable local playing grounds in the diffusion of base ball?

| <p>Excelsior (W by 3 runs)</p> <p>Empire (L)</p> | <p>Albany, N.Y.</p> <p>Cricket Ground</p>

| <p>American (Buffalo) 50</p> <p>Washington (Buffalo?) 37</p> <p>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “The young men … had a g ...all Club intra-club games)</p> <p>(<i>GCH:</i> <i>Herald</i> was published by A. J.  McWain.)</p>

| <p>Union Star Cricket Club grounds</p> ...Brooklyn
players, and eight players of New York, came off on Friday
on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The New Yorkers
were singularly unfortuna

...and Bishop</em>, Robert Henderson demolished the Cooperstown origins story by pointing to numerous examples of bat and ball-type games in medieval Europe ...h I warn’d him of before; came down a Spit, and clear’d the Leaden-throat, by thrusting out a Trap-Ball that stuck there.”<ref name="ref18" /> Caesar R