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|Text=<p>Seven clubs participated in the first Ball of the Base Ball Clubs, "at Niblo's", attracting about 200 couples. The evening was pronounced "very satisfactory".</p>
|Text=<p>Seven clubs participated in the first Ball of the Base Ball Clubs, "at Niblo's", attracting about 200 couples. The evening was pronounced "very satisfactory".</p>
<p>Organizers are discussed in the&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Material</strong>, from Richard Hershberger. below</p>
<p>Organizers are discussed in the&nbsp;<strong>Supplemental Material</strong>, from Richard Hershberger, below</p>
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|Sources=<p><em>New York Tribune,&nbsp;</em>January 25, 1856</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Tribune,&nbsp;</em>January 25, 1856</p>

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First Ball of the Base Ball Clubs Attracts 200 Couples at Niblo's Saloon

Salience Peripheral
Tags Ball in the Culture
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Modern Address the block between Broadway and Crosby Street
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Seven clubs participated in the first Ball of the Base Ball Clubs, "at Niblo's", attracting about 200 couples. The evening was pronounced "very satisfactory".

Organizers are discussed in the Supplemental Material, from Richard Hershberger, below

 

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New York Tribune, January 25, 1856

New York Atlas, January 6, 1856.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes, Richard Hershberger
Submission Note 2/25/2014, 1/7/2020
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Supplemental Text

baseball banquet, January 1856

Tue Jan 7, 2020 9:11 am (PST) . Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger

We have previously discussed the abortive baseball convention in December of 1855.  It bubbled up, then sank again, never thereafter to be seen.  Or so I thought.  Its stated purpose was to arrange a banquet and playing rules for the various clubs.  The playing rules bit had to wait until early 1857. . . .   The New York Atlas has recently become available on genealogybank.  The issue of January 6, 1856 has an advertisement for the banquet:

"The First Annual Ball and Supper of the Associated Base Ball Clubs, will take place a Niblo’s Saloon, Jan., 23, 1856.  Tickets admitting a Gentleman and two Ladies, $5.  Tickets can be had of any of the following Committee:  Thomas G. Van Cott, 84 Columbia st., Chas. G. Cornell, 68 Third st. Jas. Cameron, 92 Elm st. M. Grey, [illegible] Fifth st. L. M. Bergen, 58 Carlton av., Brooklyn."

Van Cott is unsurprising.  He was the great early (and unsung today) promoter of the game.  I don't know anything about the next three.  Bergen is an interesting inclusion.  This is Leonard Bergen, of the Atlantics.  He would a bit later be the hapless participant in one of the earliest pay-to-play scandals.