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|Sources=<p>[A] Letter from "F.W.T.", 7/6/1853, <em>Base Ball at Hoboken, </em>to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Spirit of the Times</span>, Volume 23, number 21, Saturday July 9, 1853, page 246, column 1. Posted to 19CBB by David Block, 9/6/2006. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">SOT</span> facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.</p>
|Sources=<p>[A] Letter from "F.W.T.", 7/6/1853, <em>Base Ball at Hoboken, </em>to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Spirit of the Times</span>, Volume 23, number 21, Saturday July 9, 1853, page 246, column 1.&nbsp;</p>
<p>See also John Thorn, "The Baseball Press Emerges," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball </span>Journal, Volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 106-110.</p>
<p>See also John Thorn, "The Baseball Press Emerges," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball </span>Journal, Volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 106-110.</p>
<p>[B] Letter from "F.W.T.", 10/18/1853, &nbsp;"Base Ball Match," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spirit of the Times, volume 23, number 36 (Saturday, October 22, 1853), page 432, column 2; supplied by Craig Waff, September 2008.</span></p>
<p>[B] Letter from "F.W.T.", 10/18/1853, &nbsp;"Base Ball Match," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spirit of the Times, volume 23, number 36 (Saturday, October 22, 1853), page 432, column 2; supplied by Craig Waff, September 2008.</span></p>
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Knicks, Gothams Play Season Opener on July 1 and Again on October 18

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[A] July Game

"BASE BALL AT HOBOKEN: The first friendly game of the season, between the Gotham and Knickerbocker Base Ball Clubs was played on the grounds of the latter on the 5th inst. The game was commenced on Friday the 1st, but owing to the storm had to be postponed, the Knickerbockers making nine aces to two of the Gothams, the following is the score for both days."

The Knicks won, 21-12, according to an abbreviated box score, which uses "No. of Outs" [and not "Hands Lost"] in the left-hand column, and "Runs," [not "Aces", as in the article] in the right-hand column. Paul Wendt estimates that this is the first certain Knick-rules box score known, and the first since the October 1845 games (see "1845.4 and #1845.16 above). 18 outs are recorded for each club, so six innings were played, "Twenty-one runs constituting the game."

The Knickerbocker lineup was Brotherson, Dick, Adams, Niebuhr, Dupignac, Tryon, Parisen, Tucker, and Waller.  The Gotham lineup was W. H. Fancott [Van Cott], Thos. Fancott [Van Cott], J. C. Pinkny, Cudlip, Winslow Jr, Winslow Sr, Lalor, and Wadsworth.

[B] October Game

"Friend P -- The return game of Base Ball between the Gotham and Knickerbockers, was played last Friday, at the Red House, and resulted in favor of he Knickerbockers.  The following is the score (21 runs constituting the game.)"

A box score follows, with columns headed "Runs" and "Outs."  The score  was 21-14, and evidently took nine innings.

"This was the finest, and at one time the closest match, that has ever been played between the two clubs. All that the Gothamites want is a little more practice at the bat; then the Knicks will have to stir themselves to sustain the laurels which they have worn so long."

The Knickerbocker lineup was Adams, De Bost, Tucker, Niebuhr, Tryon, Dick, Brotherson, Davis and Eager.  The Gotham lineup was T. Van Cott, Wm. Van Cott, Miller, Cudlipp, Demilt, Pinckney, Wadsworth, Salzman, and Winslow.

 

 

Sources

[A] Letter from "F.W.T.", 7/6/1853, Base Ball at Hoboken, to The Spirit of the Times, Volume 23, number 21, Saturday July 9, 1853, page 246, column 1. 

See also John Thorn, "The Baseball Press Emerges," Base Ball Journal, Volume 5, number 1 (Special Issue on Origins), pages 106-110.

[B] Letter from "F.W.T.", 10/18/1853,  "Base Ball Match," Spirit of the Times, volume 23, number 36 (Saturday, October 22, 1853), page 432, column 2; supplied by Craig Waff, September 2008.

Comment

Paul Wendt writes that the July game account included the first known box score of a game surely played by Knickerbocker rules. 

Note the early appearance of informal usage:  "Knicks" for "Knickerbockers" and "Gothamites" for "Gotham Club."

 

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