Early baseball in Missouri/Club 1

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Location Missouri
Year 1859
Month 9
Date 1
Note on date Possibly not September
Modern address Saint Louis MO
City Saint Louis
State MO
Country US
First in Missouri Yes

From Protoball Entry #1859.39 – Club Organized in St. Louis MO

"CLUB ORGANIZED, – A base ball club was organized in St. Louis, Mo, on the 1st inst. It boasts of being the first organization of the kind in that city, but will not, surely, long stand alone. It numbers already 18 members, officers as follows: President, C. D. Paul; Vice do, J. T. Haggerty; Secretary, C. Thurber; Treasurer, E. R. Paul. They announce their determination to be ready to play matches in about a month."

St. Louis MO (1860 pop. about 161,000) was then the 8th largest city in the US.

Sources

Source: Under-identified clipping in the Mears collection – The Clipper or the Spirit of the Times – annotated "Sept 1859" in hand. Facsimile provided by Craig Waff, September 2008.

See item #1859.39 at http://protoball.org/Chronology:_1840_-_1870

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