Grove City Club of Kankakee
| Nick Name | Grove City |
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| Earliest Known Date | October 1867 |
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| Location | Kankakee, IL, United States |
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| Nine Class | Senior |
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| Description | The Wilmington (IL) Independent, Oct. 16, 1867: "Last Thursday morning the first nine of the Kankakee Base Ball Club stopped here on their way home from Morris, where they had attended a tournament, and challenged our first nine. The match was played on the grounds on the west side of the river...The score was Kankakee 59, Wilmington 16. Each team made 27 outs." Same Nov. 13, 1867: "Last Thursday a very interesting game was played between the Grove City Club, of Kankakee, and the Tempests, of Wilmington, resulting rather disastrously to our boys." The Kankakee Gazette, Nov. 14, 1867 said the score of this game was Kankakee 95, Wilimington 40. The Grove City Club of Kankakee was represented at the 1868 state baseball convention. See the Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1868. Cincinnati Daily Gazette, May 18, 1870, reports: "The Chicago Club disgusted the Grove City Club, at Kankakee, last Monday, by beating them to the tune of 111 to 5." The White Stockings were then returning from a trip to the south. The Kankakee Gazette, May 19, 1870, has an extensive account of this game, as does the Chicago Tribune, May 17, 1870. It was played May 16 at the Fair Grounds, with T. J. Curtis of Kankakee as umpire. The local team was actually a picked nine from the Grove City and Rockville Township nines, comprising M. Magruder, Laparis, N. Magruder, Bernier, S. Magruder, Lancaster, O. J. Sampsell, O. A. Sampsell, and one illegible name. Grove City was the name of a resort club in north Kankakee. Post 1870 Kankakee teams include the Stars and Clippers (KG 9-18-73), the Blackfeet and South Siders (junior teams; KG 8-13-74); and Nonesuch (KG Aug. 19, 1875). |
| Sources | The Wilmington (IL) Independent, Oct. 16, 1867, Nov. 13, 1867. The Kankakee Gazette, May 19, 1870 |
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| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
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| Entered by | Bruce Allardice |
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Ballgames
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Players
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Playing Fields
| Field | Years | Edit Association with Club |
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| Kankakee Fairgrounds | 1860s |
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