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Excelsior Club Forms in Brooklyn

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Club Constitutions/Bylaws
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Constitution and By-Laws of the Excelsior Base Ball Club of Brooklyn, 1854. The Excelsior Club is organized "to improve, foster, and perpetuate the American game of Base Ball, and advance morally, socially and physically the interests of its members." Its written constitution, Seymour notes, is very similar in wording to the Knickerbocker constitution.

 

Sources

Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.

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Is this the first base ball club organized in Brooklyn?

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