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Outmanned Buffalo NY Club Survives "Old-Fashioned" Game, 46-38
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules |
Location | Western New YorkWestern New York |
City/State/Country: | Buffalo, NY, US |
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Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | "The matched game of Base Ball between the Buffalo and Alden clubs was played yesterday afternoon on the Niagara's grounds on Main st. The match was a closely contested one, and resulted in favor of the Buffalo Club, who scored forty-six to thirty-eight runs made by the Alden Club in the twelve innings. The Alden Club have played several matches and have never been beaten before. The game was the old-fashioned one, which calls for more muscle than the New England game."
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Sources | "The Ball Match Yesterday," Buffalo Daily Courier (August 13, 1859), page 3, column 2. Buffalo Daily Courier, September 2 and September 5, 1859, |
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Comment | The Alden club fielded 15 players to the confront the Niagaras' 12; they included two "behinds" as well as a catcher, two left fielders, two right fielders, a fourth baseman, and one more team member listed simply as "fielder." Both teams' pitchers were termed "throwers." The game was evidently limited to 12 innings instead of to a set total of tallies, as was found in other upstate "old-fashioned base ball" games of this period. Taken at face value, this account implies that three games were played in the region at the time - the New York game, the New England game, and this game. Alden NY is 20 miles due east of downtown Buffalo. A return match was hosted by the Alden club on September 3rd, with the Buffalo New York and Erie railroad offering half-price fares to fans. Alden won, "by 96 to 22 tallies." Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | Priscilla Astifan |
Submission Note | 5/25/2008; 12/7/2008 |
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