Early baseball in Louisiana/Club 1
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|Location=Louisiana | |Location=Louisiana | ||
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|Date-note=Original date: "1850s" | |Date-note=Original date: "1850s" | ||
|City=New Orleans | |City=New Orleans | ||
|State=LA | |State=LA | ||
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|Submitter=Larry McCray | |Submitter=Larry McCray | ||
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|Approved=Yes | |Approved=Yes | ||
|Pagetext=From PBall Entry #1850s.4 – New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Baseball | |Pagetext=From PBall Entry #1850s.4 – New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Baseball |
Latest revision as of 21:48, 1 September 2012
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Location | Louisiana |
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Note on date | Original date: "1850s" |
City | New Orleans |
State | LA |
Country | US |
Found by | Larry McCray |
From PBall Entry #1850s.4 – New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Baseball
"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.
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.]
Open Issue: Can we determine when the Irish club, and any others, were first established, and whether they played by Association rules?