Early baseball in Minnesota/Game 1

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Location	Minnesota
Year	1859
Month	5
Date	28
City	St. Paul
State	MN
Country	USA
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	St. Paul Olympic Club
Team 2	intra-squad
Team 1 Score	27
Team 2 Score	16
Length	9 innings ?
Found by	Rich Arpi

Letter sent to the St. Paul Daily News, Wednesday, July 1, 1859:

To the Editor of the Times:

I take pleasure in responding to your request by giving you a rough report of the game of base ball played by the St. Paul Olympic Club, this afternoon. I only regret that I am unable to give up a fuller and more detailed report; but the game, not being a matched one, the runs made on each running [inning ?], were not recorded, so I simply give you the sum total of the scoring on each side. The club plays every Tuesday and Saturday, at four o'clock p.m. on Fort Street, beyond the Bell Tower. It holds its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday June 7th at 7 1/2 p.m., in Irvine's Stone Block, when persons may present their names for enrollment as members.

The following is a rough sketch of the game.

• Players:
  • D.W. Cornwell (cpt.), A.G. Langford, A.H. Green, R.B. Galusha, J.M. Treadwell, A.N. Jung, T.J. Connor, N.B. Farrell,...Sewell----9 scored 27.
  • W.B. McGeorge (cpt.), N.P. Langford, ...Brewster, George W. Hamilton, G.S. March, Thomas Van Etten, ...Gardner, G.S. Hazleton, J. Gardner...9 scored 16.

Truely yours, Olympic

St. Paul, May 28, 1859

Sources

• "Game of Ball", St. Paul Daily News, Wednesday, June 1, 1859.