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| | |Location=Louisiana | | |Location=Louisiana |
| - | |Date-note=Original date: "1850s" | + | |Year=1850 |
| | |City=New Orleans | | |City=New Orleans |
| - | |State=LA | + | |State=Louisiana |
| - | |Country=US
| + | |Approved=false |
| - | |Submitter=Larry McCray
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| - | |Pagetext=From PBall Entry #1850s.4 – New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Baseball
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| - | "Beginning in the 1850's, the Germans and the Irish took up the sport [baseball] with alacrity. In New Orleans, for example, the Germans founded the Schneiders, Laners, and Landwehrs, and the Irish formed the Fenian Baseball Club. . . . Baseball invariably accompanied the ethnic picnics of the Germans, Irish, French, and, later, Italians.
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| - | Per Benjamin G. Rader, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators [Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1883], page 93. No source provided.]
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| - | Open Issue: Can we determine when the Irish club, and any others, were first established, and whether they played by Association rules?
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