Early baseball in Indiana/Club 5
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|Pagetext=One of two teams active after the Civil War at Concordia Gymnasium, an educational institution in Fort Wayne. Sihler says baseball arrived in Fort Wayne in the autumn of 1865; he himself departed to continue his education in St. Louis in 1869. | |Pagetext=One of two teams active after the Civil War at Concordia Gymnasium, an educational institution in Fort Wayne. Sihler says baseball arrived in Fort Wayne in the autumn of 1865; he himself departed to continue his education in St. Louis in 1869. | ||
Latest revision as of 03:02, 11 May 2012
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| Location | Indiana |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Note on date | founded no later than 1865 or earlier than 1869 |
| City | Fort Wayne |
| State | IN |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Empires |
| Found by | David Ball |
One of two teams active after the Civil War at Concordia Gymnasium, an educational institution in Fort Wayne. Sihler says baseball arrived in Fort Wayne in the autumn of 1865; he himself departed to continue his education in St. Louis in 1869.
Sihler describes the Alerts as the "crack club" at Concordia, and says they regularly beat the Kekionga, the "leading town club" in Fort Wayne.
Sources
Ernest Sihler, "From Maumee to Thames and Tiber" (1930), pp. 31-32.
