Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast That Established the Game

The New York Base Ball Club (a.k.a. Washington BBC, Gotham BBC)

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This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, McFarland Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years.

The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts.

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What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime. Timeline of the Pioneer Era Robert Tholkes. Note on Sources and Usage Peter Morris. One New York City and Vicinity. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

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Ryczek is a finance professional in Wallingford, Connecticut, who writes about early baseball, football, the Yankees, and the Mets. He lives in Swanton, Maryland. This club suffered a suspension during the war [that of ], and for many years subsequently the boat which bore its name was hung up in the New-York Museum, as a model of the finest race-boat ever launched in this port. Stevens for its first president, with Ogden Hoffman, Charles L.

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Livingston, Robert Emmet, John Stevens, and other good men and true for his successors. To this club the rudder of the old Knickerbocker was bequeathed, with the archives thereto pertaining: Baseball historians, take note. It was still conducting boat races and theatrical benefits in After them [the New York and American Star] came the Atalanta , manned by dry-goods clerks; the Seadrift , by bakers; the Neptune , by Fulton Market butchers; the Fairy , by law students; the Columbia and the Halcyon , by city collegians; the Water Witch , by engine runners; the Red Rover , by Ninth Ward firemen, and so on to the end of a miraculous chapter, utterly exhausting the catalogue of seagods, nereids and hamadryads, deified in pagan mythology.

Boat-builders toiled night and day in the production of racing novelties, and one fair of the American Institute, appropriately held at Castle Garden, was almost entirely consecrated to specimens of their art, painted in all the colors of the rainbow, and in others, emanating from overtaxed imaginations, any man inventing a previously-unknown hue being tolerably certain of immediate canonization.

George Cricket Club, which filled its playing ranks with English nationals. For a couple of years they played upon a section of the domain of Mr. Stevens but subsequently they removed to a more spacious and accessible locality [the Fox Hill Cricket Ground], just beyond the upper end of the old race track [the Beacon, which closed after the season]. The NYCC continued until , but it had stood on the shoulders of earlier cricket clubs bearing the same name.

A club of that name had formed in , the same year as the Gotham or New York Base Ball Club, as referenced in the Wheaton reminiscences below. Coexisting with the St.

A New York Sporting Club for the preservation of game within city limits had been created in Accordingly, a series of questions confronts us. Peverelly offered this capsule portrait of the New York Nine: In fact, the New York Club not only preceded the Knickerbocker in every innovation cited above, but was also its progenitor. The process by which they became two separate clubs may not have been an altogether amicable split. The understanding of veteran baseball players at the turn of the 20th century was exceedingly hazy as to who had been a Knickerbocker and who a member of the New Yorks.

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A widely syndicated article by Albert G. Spalding it appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal on April 1, announced the formation of an investigative body to examine the origins of baseball; this has come to be known as the Mills Commission. This article was read by Abner Graves, who responded to the editor of the newspaper and lifted Abner Doubleday to inventor status.

Extracting from the materials he had received from Chadwick, Spalding named 11 men as Knickerbocker Base Ball Club founders, including: Tucker, and Daniel L. The last named, Adams, did not join the Knickerbocker until one month after its founding. Known as the New York or Gotham or Washington from the s through the s, these clubs were lineally the same, and appear to have gone by several names at the same time. The murky relationship between the original Gothams of , the Washingtons, the New Yorks, the Knickerbockers, and the later Gothams may be summarized below.

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Because they regarded themselves as the first organized club, the Gotham Club was also called the Washington. A matter of custom, this practice was said to denote that they were, like the father of our country, first.

The Tribune reported on November 29, Washington Market Chowder Club. They were very numerous, and fine looking body of men. And it would be indeed surprising that any company composed of butchers should be anything else than fine looking; that occupation embraces the most robust and hardy men in the city.

Fruit-famed, vegetable-renowned Jersey pours four-fifths of its products into this lap of distributive commerce; the river- hugging counties above contribute their share, and car- loads come trundling in from the West to feed this perpetually hungry maw of the Empire City. The concentration of this great and stirring trade is to be met with at Washington Market. This vast wooden structure, with its numerous outbuildings and sheds, is an irregular and unsightly one, but presents a most novel and interesting scene within and without.

The sheds are mainly devoted to smaller stands and smaller sales. Women with baskets of fish and tubs of tripe on their heads, lusty butcher-boys lugging halves and quarters of beef or mutton into their carts, pedlars of every description, etc. Some of the produce dealers and brokers, who occupy the little box-like shanties facing the market from the river, do a business almost as large as any of the neighboring merchants boasting their five-story warehouses.

At some point in the early s the Gotham club was renamed the New York Ball Club, retaining most if not all of its Gotham members.

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