Early baseball in Louisiana/Club 1

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From PBall Entry #1850s.4 – New Orleans LA: Clubs Formed by German and Irish immigrants to play Baseball
 
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“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.
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"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.]
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.]
Query: Can we determine when the Irish club, and any others, were first established, and whether they played by Association rules?
Query: Can we determine when the Irish club, and any others, were first established, and whether they played by Association rules?
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Location Louisiana
Year 1858
Note on date Original date: "1850s"
City New Orleans
State Louisiana
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.]

Query: Can we determine when the Irish club, and any others, were first established, and whether they played by Association rules?


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