Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 13
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| Location | New York (state) |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Note on date | No Later than September 1859 |
| City | Troy |
| State | NY |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Victory |
On July 3, 1860, the Victory Club of Troy played the Excelsior Club of Brooklyn, losing 13-7: M. Wright, The NABBP, page 44.
Troy played (and lost to) the Vanguard Club of Cohoes on September 9, 1859, as reported by the Troy Daily Whig on September 10, 1859. See Protoball Games Tabulation (NYS Capital Area Table), compiled by Craig Waff.
Sources
The Victory Club is described in Peter Morris et. al., Baseball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), pages 49-53.
