Early baseball in Ohio/Club 4
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Location | Ohio |
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Year | 1860 |
Note on date | Fall |
City | Cincinnati |
State | OH |
Country | US |
Nickname | Buckeye Base-Ball Club |
Found by | Larry McCray |
"It us undoubtedly to college boys that the West owes its early indebtedness for the introduction of base-ball. In Cincinnati the first game was instituted by two young men from Rochester College in the fall of 1860. One of these was Theodore Frost, and the other is now a prominent druggist of Cincinnati. They worked hard to substitute the new game for town-ball, and in the fall succeeded in organizing the Buckeye Base-Ball Club. This was the first Base-ball Club gotten together in Cincinnati. The players were selected from the Woodward and Hughes High School scholars and young business men from of the city.
From a 1879 Cleveland Press article found in the Chadwick Scrapbooks. As cited in Peter Morris, But Didn't We Have Fun (Ivan Dee, Chicago, 2008), page 42.
Note: Ellard's Baseball in Cincinnati puts the first base ball club -- the Buckeyes -- in 1866.