Early baseball in Louisiana/Game 4
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Location | Louisiana |
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Year | 1859 |
Month | 8 |
Date | 12 |
City | New Orleans |
State | LA |
Country | |
Modern address | New Orleans LA |
Was NY rules baseball | Likely |
Played by | Locals |
Team 1 | Empire |
Team 2 | Louisiana |
First in Louisiana | Yes |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The first “match” game in New Orleans between two different clubs was played August 12, 1859 between the Empire and Louisiana Base Ball Clubs, won by Empire [Times-Picayune, August 13, 1859].
The prewar Empire Base Ball Club had as captains Alex Dapremont (1832-1906), a local bookseller, and TN-born John B. Chandler (c. 1825-post 1880), a railroad paymaster. Dapremont served as Lt. in the Confederate army. The 1859 Louisiana BBC had as its captains Florida-born Charles W. Pescay (1828-87), a grocer, sailor and salesman who moved to Houston after the Civil War and died there, and J. H.(W.?) Jones. Pescay, a Confederate army veteran, is buried in Lafayette Cemetery, New Orleans. The Lone Star BBC, organized Sept. 15, 1859, elected as president William F. Tracey (1843-1924), a plasterer and postwar plumbing inspector. He served as Private, 1st Louisiana Infantry, CSA.
Sources
Times-Picayune, August 13, 1859