Base Ball Club of Ottawa

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Nick Name	Club of Ottawa
Earliest Known Date	1871
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Location	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Nine Class	Senior
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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
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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). Edit with form to add a comment
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice
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