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Empire Club Constitution Appears
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Club Constitutions/BylawsClub Constitutions/Bylaws |
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| City/State/Country: | nyc, ny, us |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | Constitution, by-laws and rules of the Empire Ball Club; organized October 23rd, 1854 [New York, The Empire Club] [B] "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."
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| Sources | David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 223. [B] "Empire Bass Ball Club," New York Daily Times Volume 4, number 1125 (Thursday, April 26, 1855), page 8, column 1. Contributed by Craig Waff, May 16, 2009. |
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| 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 |
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| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Craig Waff |
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1854.7 Empire Club Constitution Appears"
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