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|Location=New York (state)
|Location=New York (state)
|Year=1858
|Year=1858
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|Month=9
 
|Date-note=No Later than October 1858
|Date-note=No Later than October 1858
|City=Syracuse
|City=Syracuse
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|Country=US
|Country=US
|Nickname=Syracuse Base Ball Club
|Nickname=Syracuse Base Ball Club
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|Submitter=Larry McCray
|Approved=Yes
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|Pagetext=The Syracuse Base Ball Club, reportedly formed  "a few weeks before" an October 6, 1858 newspaper article that reported on an early intramural game.
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The Syracuse Base Ball Club played an intramural game on about October 21, 1858.
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It also played an intramural game on about October 21, 1858.  This game, reported by Porter's Spirit and by the Clipper, WNY table) compiled by Craig Waff.
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This game, reported by Porter's Spirit on October 30 1858 and by the Clipper on November 6, 1858, appears in the Protoball Games Tabulation [WNY table] compiled by Craig Waff.
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The SBBC was evidently the first club in Syracuse to play by Association rules.  Those 17 rules, adopted in 1854, had been printed the Syracuse Standard in May 1855.
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In September 1860, a Syracuse paper said that the SBBC were "the champions of the field in Central New York.  They have beaten the champion clubs of Oswego, Madison, and Cayuga Counties." 
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|Sources=Games: Syracuse Standard, October 6, 1858; Porter's Spirit of the Times, October 30, 1858; and Clipper, November 6, 1858.  Rules: Syracuse Standard, May 16, 1855.
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Championship claim: Syracuse Journal, September 9, 1860.
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