Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 19
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| Location | New York (state) |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Month | 4 |
| Date | 18 |
| City | Utica |
| State | NY |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Utica |
A close game between the Utica Club and the Syracuse BBC occurred in mid-October, with the Syracuse winning 20-19. Peverelly dates the Utica Club to April 1859, but this is the first game account that we know of. It is found in the baseball clippings collection at the Onondaga Hist Assn.
The game account cites coverage in the Utica Telegraph: beside details of the post-game dinner, it saays "Mr. A. Wilkinson received the trophy [for Syracuse]. . . . The Syracuse Club took the cars at 8 1/2 o'clock." The game was umpired by a member of the Olympic Club of Syracuse, and griping ensued in print about his partiality.
A Syracuse cricket club had beaten a Utica cricket club that same week.
Utica is in Central NY, about 80 miles W of Albany and about 50 miles east of Syracuse. Its population in 1860 was about 22,000.
Sources
Utica BBC, Peverelly, page 86
1860 Utica-Syracuse game, Syracuse Journal, October 12, 1860.
