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|Year=1854
|Year=1854
|Year Number=7
|Year Number=7
|Headline=Empire Club Constitution Appears, Club Lifts Off
|Headline=Empire Club Constitution Appears
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>[A] We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>
|Tags=Club Constitutions/Bylaws,
<p>[B] &nbsp;"The Empire Bass Ball Club played their first regular season game at McCarthy's ground, Hoboken, yesterday afternoon. This club, consisting of some thirty young men, mostly clerks in the lower part of the City, was organized last year nearly at the close of the season."</p>
|Location=Greater New York City,
|Country=United States
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p><span>Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23<sup>rd</sup>, 1854</span>&nbsp;[New York, The Empire Club]</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23<sup>rd</sup>, 1854</span> [New York, The Empire Club], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 223.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Empire Bass Ball Club," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Daily Times</span> Volume 4, number 1125 (Thursday, April 26, 1855), page 8, column 1. Contributed by Craig Waff, May 16, 2009.</p>
|Sources=<p>David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 223.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>
|Submitted by=Craig Waff
|Submitted by=Craig Waff
|Submission Note=4/16/09
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.0059413
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Tags Club Constitutions/Bylaws
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23rd, 1854 [New York, The Empire Club]

 

 

Sources

David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 223.

 

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We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.

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Submitted by Craig Waff
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