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Empire Club Constitution Appears

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Club Constitutions/BylawsClub Constitutions/Bylaws
Location
City/State/Country:	nyc, ny, us
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
Notables
Text	Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23^rd, 1854 [New York, The Empire Club]
Sources	David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 223.
Warning
Comment	We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Edit with form to add a query
Source Image	[[Image:\|left\|thumb]]
External Number
Submitted by	Craig Waff 4/16/09
Submission Note
Has Supplemental Text

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 |Age of Players=Adult
 |Text=<p><span>Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23<sup>rd</sup>, 1854</span>&nbsp;[New York, The Empire Club]</p>
-<p>[B] &nbsp;"The Empire Bass Ball Club played their first regular [1855] season game at McCarthy's ground, Hoboken, yesterday afternoon. This club, consisting of some thirty young men, mostly clerks in the lower part of the City, was organized last year nearly at the close of the season."</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 |Sources=<p>David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 223.</p>
-<p>[B]&nbsp; "Empire Bass Ball Club," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Daily Times</span> Volume 4, number 1125 (Thursday, April 26, 1855), page 8, column 1. Contributed by Craig Waff, May 16, 2009.</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
 |Comment=<p>We have no record of the Empire Club playing match games in 1854, but the following April, they took the field.</p>
-|Submitted by=Craig Waff
+|Submitted by=Craig Waff 4/16/09
 |Reviewed=Yes
 |Has Supplemental Text=No
 }}