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First KY Box Score Appears in Louisville Newspaper

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Newspaper Coverage
Location US South
City/State/Country: Louisville, KY, US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"The beginnings of [Louisville] baseball on an organized basis are also lost in the mists of the 19th century. There were probably neighborhood teams competing within the city in the 1850s. But the first recorded box score in local papers appeared in the July 15, 1858 Daily Democrat. Two teams made up of members of the Louisville Base Ball Club faced one another in a contest where the final score was 52-41, a score not unusual for the period. The paper also notes that there were several other ball clubs organized in the city.

"Not much is known about the Louisville Base Ball Club. It was probably not more than a year or two old by the time of the 1858 box score."

 

Possible describing the same July game, but reporting different dates, The New York Clipper (date and page omitted from Mears Collection scrapbook; "July, 1858" annotated in hand) said: "BASE BALL IN LOUISVILLE - The game of Base Ball is making its way westward. In Louisville they have a well-organized club, called the 'Louisville Base Ball Club.' They played a game on the 18th, with the following result [box score for 52-42 intramural game shown]" 

Sources

"Chapter 1 - Beginnings: From Amateur Teams to Disgrace in the National League," mimeo, Bob Bailey, 1999, page 2.

Comment

Porter's Spirit of the Times reported on July 17, 1858 that the Louisville BBC had been organized on June 10, 1858.

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Submitted by New York Clipper Facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.
Submission Note Comment by Robert Tholkes 11/6/2013



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