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Elusive Intercollegiate Game [the first pPayed by NY Rules] Pits Xavier and Fordham

Salience Prominent
Tags College
Location NYC
Age of Players Youth
Text

Fordham College reportedly played a game against Xavier College in 1859, using the new Association rules.

 

Sources

Per Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], p. 32. Sullivan dates the game November 3, 1859, but does not give a source.

Warning

Craig Waff [email of May 21, 2009] reported that he has not been able to confirm this game, and that press material from Fordham does not document the game.

SABR's Baseball Index [TBI] cites a Fordham game in the June 16 1860 Clipper.

Comment

The Xavier College in this story is presumably College of St. Francis Xavier, a Mahattan institution that closed in 1913.

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Query

Query: Does this 1860 Clipper account, once located, report on the 1859 game?

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