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  • Cataract Club of New York  + (<p>both senior and junior versions</p>)
  • Herculaneum Club of New York  + (<p>both senior and junior versions</p>)
  • Wild Wave Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>changed name to Excelsior Jr. NYSM 600819</p>)
  • Exchange Club of Brooklyn  + (<p>cited with no details NYSM 590724</p>)
  • Paunches Pilate Club of Lockport  + (<p>citing <em>Buffalo Courier&<p>citing <em>Buffalo Courier</em>: composed of fat men; probably a joke.  An account was found in the <em>Hydraullic Press,</em> San Juan County CA, , 10/22/1859.</p></br><p>Lockport NY is on the Erie Canal northeast of Buffalo.  Its population in 1860 was under 11,000.</p>l northeast of Buffalo.  Its population in 1860 was under 11,000.</p>)
  • Mechanics Club of Elizabeth  + (<p>citing Elizabeth Union</p>)
  • Mechanics Club of South Brooklyn  + (<p>composed of young active mechanics</p>)
  • Cronk Beer Club of Lafayette  + (<p>dr. Cronk's near beer was a popular drink in the 1850s and 1860s.</p>)
  • First Baseball Tournaments  + (<p>festivals or tournaments mushroom<p>festivals or tournaments mushroomed in 1865, for example:</p></br><p>Portland, ME—at July 4 celebration. Open to all teams in ME, considered for state championship. 4 teams entered, knockout competition. 2 games at a time in the morning, championship game in the afternoon. 9 innings. Cash prizes for 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup>. <em>Portland Daily Evening Advertiser </em>coverage on July 6 indicated that the only out-of-town team was subject to “expressions of strong sympathy against them.”</p></br><p>Altoona, PA- per a reprint in <em>Fitzgerald's City Item </em>(Philadelphia) on 7/22, <em>Altoona Tribune </em>was promoting a baseball carnival—Athletics, Mountain Club of Altoona, and Alleghany Club of Pittsburg</p></br><p>Wash DC- Games on 8/28 between the Nationals and Athletics, 8/29 between the Nationals and the Atlantic of Brooklyn, “a festival such has never before been offered in Washington”. <em>Washington Daily National Intelligencer, </em>8/28</p></br><p>Wash DC- Oct. 9-11 tourney had the Excelsior of Brooklyn, the Nationals, and the Enterprise of Baltimore. Round robin, one game per day. <em>Wilkes Spirit of the Times, </em>10/21</p></br><p><em>Wilkes Spirit of the Times </em>on Oct. 21 printed a<em> </em>letter from Chicago describing problems encountered at a tourney in Rockford, IL. 5 teams, two days, two games each day. </p>describing problems encountered at a tourney in Rockford, IL. 5 teams, two days, two games each day. </p>)
  • Emerson Club of Washington v Eagle Club I of Washington on 13 December 1865  + (<p>for city junior championship</p>)
  • Eureka Club of San Francisco  + (<p>formed by “typos”</p>)
  • Guttenberg Club of San Francisco  + (<p>formed by “typos”</p>)
  • Apollo Club of New York  + (<p>formerly “Careless”</p>)
  • Gopher Base Ball Club of Otatonna v Gopher State Base Ball Club of Rochester on 23 July 1867  + (<p>game called after 3 innings due to rain</p>)
  • Pennichuck Club of Nashua v North Star Club of Milford on 12 September 1867  + (<p>game started at 10 and lasted three hours with the North Star (of Milford, NH) team winning easily.</p>)
  • Club of Chester, PA  + (<p>http://sabr.org/node/29735 has an article on the Brandywine Club of West Chester. The article says they played (and lost) to the Chester Club on Dec. 12, 1865.</p>)
  • Club of Joplin  + (<p>http://www.historicjoplin.org (a <p>http://www.historicjoplin.org (a great website) has lots on Joplin baseball history, mostly 1890s on. In the first mention, in 1883 a tornado destroyed Joplin's Cox Baseball Park. Team owner (and local banker) Arthur C. Cox promptly rebuilt it.</p></br><p>It is probable that baseball was played here for several years prior to 1883.</p></br><p>Joplin was founded in 1871. By 1902 they had a professional team.</p>gt;Joplin was founded in 1871. By 1902 they had a professional team.</p>)
  • In Malawi in 2012  + (<p>https://diatribe.org/issues/40/logbook 2012 log says that baseball is played in the universities of Malawi.</p>)
  • Alexander G. Babcock  + (<p>https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperf<p>https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_269/007/20060703129.jpg</p></br><p>Alexander G. Babcock was born in New York and during the 1850s played for NYC-area clubs, including Atlantic of Brooklyn. However, when war broke out Babcock went south and joined the Confederate Army, eventually becoming First Sergeant of John Singleton Mosby's 43rd Virginia Cavalry, better known as Mosby's Raiders. In the photo of Mosby's officers linked above, Babcock is the man on the right. Remarkably, Babcock's fighting knife, engraved with his name, rank and regiment, has survived and was recently offered at auction: https://www.icollector.com/item.aspx?i=6969066</p></br><p> </p></br><p>After the war Babcock settled in Richmond and took up the occupation of ice dealer. He also resumed his prewar avocation of ballplayer. He first founded the Richmond Club, quite likely the first in the city, and then founded a sort of standing All-Star team, the Pastime Club, of which he wass the captain and first baseman.</p></br><p>At his death in 1894 Babcock was interred in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery together with many other of Virginia's notables, including US Presidents and Confederate generals, perhaps not unfittingly for Richmond's baseball pioneer.</p>and Confederate generals, perhaps not unfittingly for Richmond's baseball pioneer.</p>)
  • Olympic Club of St. Paul v Saxons Club of St. Paul on 26 July 1866  + (<p>https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-rise-of-baseball-in-minnesota/</p>)
  • Island Club of Ward's Island  + (<p>in the East River</p>)
  • Cuck-ball  + (<p>is defined in the OED as “a kind of rounders.” Gomme equates Cuck-Ball with Pize Ball and Tut-Ball.</p>)
  • White Earth Base Ball Club of White Earth Objiwe Nation  + (<p>issue of July 30, 1903 reported o<p>issue of July 30, 1903 reported on a base ball game between a Native-American club, the White Earth Nation (Objibwe), and the Bemidji Base Ball Club. Bemidji won 23-4. They played several more games over the next couple of years. </br></p><p>Newspapers prior to 1903 need to be checked to see if there were earlier games.</br></p><p>White Earth, MN is about 210 miles NW of Minneapolis.</br></p>p><p>White Earth, MN is about 210 miles NW of Minneapolis. </p>)
  • Washington Jr. Club of Newark v Independence Sr. Club of Somerville on 5 September 1859  + (<p>jr vs sr.</p>)
  • Union Club of St. Louis v Palmetto Club of St. Louis on 7 June 1862  + (<p>jr vs sr.</p>)
  • Niagara Club of Utica v Club of Utica on 13 September 1862  + (<p>jr vs sr.</p> <p>The Niagara challenge was that Utica would play the fly game, while Niagara would play the "full" game.</p>)