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|Name=Base Ball Club of Ottawa
|Name=Base Ball Club of Ottawa
|Club Name=Club of Ottawa
|Club Name=Club of Ottawa
|Type of Date=Day
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1867/04/30
|Date=1871/01/01
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Country=Canada
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<p>On Thursday next a game will be played on Parliament Square, between the first nine and the field.</p>
<p>On Thursday next a game will be played on Parliament Square, between the first nine and the field.</p>
<p>The club will go to Prescott on Dominion Day to compete for the prize offered there."</p>
<p>The club will go to Prescott on Dominion Day to compete for the prize offered there."</p>
<p>On Aug. 27, 1872, this club played the Boston Red Stockings, at a new baseball grounds at the foot of Elgin Street. The home team lost, 64-0.</p>
|Sources=<p>The Ottawa&nbsp;<em>Free Press</em>, June 12, 1871, June 13, 1871</p>
|Sources=<p>The Ottawa&nbsp;<em>Free Press</em>, June 12, 1871, June 13, 1871</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Comment=<p>Steve Rennie sends this:&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>This club was formed after the New Dominion Club of Ottawa folded in 1869. Some players from the New Dominion Club went on to play for the Ottawa Base Ball Club, such as Tom and Harry Cluff and&nbsp;<span>Robert Lang, who was the new team's president in 1871.</span></p>
<div>The&nbsp;<em>Daily Journal</em>&nbsp;of Ogdensburg, New York reported on game played an August 30, 1867 between Ottawa and Ogdensburg (they spelled it "Ogdensburgh" back then). It seems clear from the game report that the Ottawa players were not all that familiar with the sport. Here is the write-up in full, which you can see for yourself under the headline "Base Ball."</div>
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<p><span>A letter in the July 28, 1871 edition of the Ottawa Times notes that the New Dominion Club folded after they were "unable to continue to practice on account of the grounds on which we played being subdivided and sold, and our club became defunct." (Ottawa Times, July 28, 1871, page 2).<br /></span></p>
<div><em>The match game of base ball&nbsp;played here,&nbsp;yesterday, between the Ottawa Club and the first nine of the Ogdensburgh Club, resulted in favor of Ogdensburgh, by a score of 141 to 20.&nbsp;In explanation it is proper to say that the Ottawa boys were not well posted on the rules of the game, and consequently missed making several tallies, and also got out several times when they should have avoided it,&rdquo; wrote the Daily Journal. &ldquo;They have, however, good material to make base ball players, and will do better next time. Their pitcher and catcher are as good as average, and all will do well when they understand the game better. They did not come boasting, but requested the privilege of coming to learn the game. Another year we shall expect to see them a match for the best.</em></div>
|Query=<p>Ottawa had 21,000 residents in 1871.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|First in Location=Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Nick Name Club of Ottawa
Earliest Known Date 1871
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nine Class Senior
Description

The Ottawa Free Press, June 12, 1871: "Base Ball meeting this evening at 8:30, corner of Sparks and Metcalfe Streets."

Same, June 13, 1871, p. 3:

"Base Ball. At the meeting for the election of officers of the Ottawa Base Ball Club, the following were elected... President, R. Lang, Vice President, Geo. Hutchison, Secy.-Treas. Geo. E. Armstrong ...

"The members of the club now number thirty gentlemen, and perhaps an equal number purpose joining.

On Thursday next a game will be played on Parliament Square, between the first nine and the field.

The club will go to Prescott on Dominion Day to compete for the prize offered there."

On Aug. 27, 1872, this club played the Boston Red Stockings, at a new baseball grounds at the foot of Elgin Street. The home team lost, 64-0.

Sources

The Ottawa Free Press, June 12, 1871, June 13, 1871

Comment

This club was formed after the New Dominion Club of Ottawa folded in 1869. Some players from the New Dominion Club went on to play for the Ottawa Base Ball Club, such as Tom and Harry Cluff and Robert Lang, who was the new team's president in 1871.

 

A letter in the July 28, 1871 edition of the Ottawa Times notes that the New Dominion Club folded after they were "unable to continue to practice on account of the grounds on which we played being subdivided and sold, and our club became defunct." (Ottawa Times, July 28, 1871, page 2).

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