Early baseball in New York (city)/Game 1
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| Location | New York (city) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1845 |
| Month | 10 |
| Note on date | date possibly the 10th |
| City | Brooklyn |
| State | NY |
| Country | US |
| Site | grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club |
| Was NY rules baseball | Likely |
| Played by | Locals |
| Team 1 | Brooklyn |
| Team 2 | New York |
| Team 1 Score | 22 |
| Team 2 Score | 1 |
| Length | three innings? |
Protoball Summary
“The Base Ball match between eight Brooklyn players, and eight players of New York, came off on Friday on the grounds of the Union Star Cricket Club. The Yorkers were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their three innings. Brooklyn scored 22 and of course came off winners.”
Sources
- Protoball record 1846.6 from
New York Morning News, Oct. 13, 1845, p.2. Text provided 11/3/2008 by Richard Hershberger via email. Earlier cited in Tom Melville, The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America (Bowling Green State University Press, 1998), page 168, note 38: “Though the matches played between the Brooklyn and New York clubs on 21 and 25 October 1845 are generally recognized as being the earliest games in the ”modern” era, they were, in fact, preceded by an even earlier game between those two clubs on October 12.” Thanks to Tim Johnson [email, 12/29/2008] for triggering our search for the missing game. Richard adds that one can not be sure that these were the same sides that played on October 21/25, noting that the Morning Post refers here just to New York “players”, and not to the New York Club. See #1845.4 and #1845.5 above.
On 11/11/2008, Lee Oxford discovered identical text in a second NY newspaper, which included this detail: “After this game had been decided, a match at single wicket cricket came off between two members of the Union Star Club - Foster and Boyd. Foster scored 11 the first and 1 the second innings. Boyd came off victor by scoring 16 the first innings." The True Sun (New York City), Monday, October 13, 1845, page 2, column 5.
Sources
- Protoball record 1845.16 from Protoball project
