Alton Baseball Club

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Nick Name	Alton Baseball Club
Earliest Known Date	Tuesday, May 18, 1858
Last Known Game
Location	Alton, IL, United States
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Nine Class	Senior
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Description	From Protoball entry #1858.42 – In Downstate Illinois, New Club Wins by 134 Rounds "BASEBALL IN ILLINOIS. – The Alton [IL] Base-Ball Club . . . a meeting was held on the evening of May 18, to organize a club . . . . The Upper Alton Base Ball Club . . . sent us a challenge, to play a match game, on Saturday, the 19th of June, which was accepted by our club; each side had five innings, and thirteen players each, with the following result: The Alton Base-Ball Club made 224 rounds. The Upper Alton Base-Ball Club made 90 rounds." "Base-Ball", Porter's Spirit of the Times, Volume 4, number 20 (July 17, 1858), p. 309, columns. 2-3 Alton IL is a Mississippi River town 5 miles north of St. Louis. Missouri. Jeff Kittel in his "This Game of Games' website thinks that this team probably played town ball, having fund a reference to the organization of the Alton team and mention that it was playing the game of ball that had been around for many years. The Alton Weekly Telegraph, June 3, 1858 says this club was organized "Monday last," with J. H. Hibbard as president. They will play a game "this afternoon" at the "State House Square" in Alton. Mentions that "base ball" has long been played. They have about 60 members, and will play every Friday. Same June 24, 1858 (and Alton Daily Courier, June 21, 1858) reports on the game with Upper Alton.
Sources	The Alton Weekly Telegraph, June 3, 1858
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Comment	James Harvey Hibbard (1827-76), the club's first president, was a job printer/book seller in Alton, an alderman, and later commander of the state Masons. Edit with form to add a comment
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Win/Loss Records As Far As We Now Know

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Year	Games	Wins	Losses	Ties
1858	1 Played	1 Won	0 Lost	0 Tied

Ballgames

Page	Date	City	Borough	State	Team 1	Team 2	Score	First in	Contributor
Ballgame	1858-06-19	Alton		IL	Alton Baseball Club	Upper Alton Baseball Club	224 - 90

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Playing Fields

Field	Years	Edit Association with Club
State House Square, Alton	1858

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