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Outmanned Buffalo NY Club Survives "Old-Fashioned" Game, 46-38
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| Text | "The matched game of Base Ball between the Buffalo and Alden clubs was played yesterday afternoon on the Niagara's grounds on Main st. The match was a closely contested one, and resulted in favor of the Buffalo Club, who scored forty-six to thirty-eight runs made by the Alden Club in the twelve innings. The Alden Club have played several matches and have never been beaten before. The game was the old-fashioned one, which calls for more muscle than the New England game." "The Ball Match Yesterday," Buffalo Daily Courier (August 13, 1859), page 3, column 2. The Alden club fielded 15 players to the confront the Niagaras' 12; they included two "behinds" as well as a catcher, two left fielders, two right fielders, a fourth baseman, and one more team member listed simply as "fielder." Both teams' pitchers were termed "throwers." The game was evidently limited to 12 innings instead of to a set total of tallies, as was found in other upstate "old-fashioned base ball" games of this period. Taken at face value, this account implies that three games were played in the region at the time - the New York game, the New England game, and this game. Alden NY is 20 miles due east of downtown Buffalo. Source: Email of 5/25/2008 from Priscilla Astifan. A return match was hosted by the Alden club on September 3rd, with the Buffalo New York and Erie railroad offering half-price fares to fans. Alden won, "by 96 to 22 tallies." Sources: Buffalo Daily Courier, September 2 and September 5, 1859, reported by email by Priscilla Astifan on 12/7/2008. |
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1859. Outmanned Buffalo NY Club Survives "Old-Fashioned" Game, 46-38"
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