Victory Club of Troy v Champion Club of Albany on 7 August 1860

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Date of Game Tuesday, August 7, 1860
Location Albany, NY, United States
Field  Add Field Page Champion grounds
Home Team Victory Club of Troy
Away Team Champion Club of Albany
Score 36 - 27
Innings 5
Description

(5 innings)

(Troy Daily Whig: “The size of the score can only be attributed to the warm weather. / It will be observed that the Champion played one more inning than the Victory.”)

(Porter’s Spirit of the Times: “The game was, we understand, characterized by a style of playing which ought to be frowned down by every lover of and participator in, the game of base ball, viz., tricky playing—waiting for a runner to get in before striking, and similar small advantages.  As a consequence, the five innings consumed four hours and fifteen minutes of time—from 3 o’clock until 7 ¼.  Such style of burlesque ball playing is not indulged in or countenanced by any clubs in New York or Brooklyn; and we hope that all base ball organizations, wherever they may be located, who desire the prosperity of the game, will promply [sic] put a veto on all such spurious ball playing.  Blackball the ‘waiting game.’ “)

Sources

(1) “Local Matters: Base Ball,” Troy Daily Whig, vol. 26, no. 8044 (9 Aug 1860), p. 3, col. 5

(2) “Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Victory of Troy vs. Champion of Albany,” Porter’s Spirit of the Times, vol. 8, no. 25 (14 Aug 1860), p. 388, col. 3 & p. 389, col. 1 [Champion = 26 runs]

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Found by Craig Waff
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