Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 41
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Location | New York (state) |
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Year | 1859 |
Month | 8 |
Date | 19 |
Note on date | No later than August 1859 |
City | Canastota |
State | NY |
Country | US |
Nickname | Canastota Club |
The first known reference to the Canastota Club was in a Syracuse newspaper account of its game against the visiting Syracuse BBC in August 1859. The game was played in a grassy field where "the very many little depressions of an ordinary meadow field rendered entirely uncertain the course of a bounding ball." SBBC won the game by 6 runs.
This is one of two games, both against Syracuse clubs in 1859, that are found in the baseball clipping collection of the Onondaga Hist. Assn. An account of a "return game" against SBBC on September 15, 1859, includes a reference to the trophy ball being presented at the post-game dinner.
Canastota NY is about 20 miles east of Syracuse. Its population is now about 4000.
Sources
Syracuse Standard, August 19, 1859. Syracuse Standard, September 16, 1859