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1845 Summer – The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club is formed by breakaway members of the New York or "Gotham" Club, headed by Duncan Curry, Alexander Cartwright and William R. Wheaton. 1845 September 10 – A baseball game is played that is described the following day in the New York Morning News, the earliest known game write-up. [1]
The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players. [1] The Cincinnati Base Ball Club formed in 1866 and fielded competitive teams in the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) 1867–1870, a time of a transition that ambitious Cincinnati businessmen and ballplayer Harry Wright shaped as much as anyone.
The National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) was the first organization governing American baseball (spelled as two words in the 19th century).. The first convention of 16 New York City area clubs was held at Smith's Hotel, 462 Broome Street in January 1857.
Baseball teams by year of disestablishment (159 C) ... 1845 to 1868 in baseball This page was last edited on 28 December 2023, at 22:22 (UTC). ...
Frederick A. Waterman (December 1845 – December 16, 1899) played third base for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team. . Throughout his career with "major" teams, amateur and pro, third base was his regular position in
Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional baseball club founded in 1866 and disbanded following the 1870 season. During the offseason, core members such as brothers Harry & George Wright moved to Boston to help start a newly formed baseball club called the Boston Red Stockings, eventually becoming known as the Boston Braves; the team moved to Milwaukee and became the Milwaukee ...
Organized baseball in Portsmouth can be traced to 1868, when the "Riverside club" amateur baseball team was formed in Portsmouth. [1] The Cobblers were preceded in minor league baseball by the 1884 Portsmouth Riversides, who played the season as members of the Ohio State League, playing under manager Daniel Spry.
The Cincinnati Buckeyes was the name of two amateur baseball teams in Cincinnati, Ohio. The first, formed in 1859, disbanded during the Civil War. [1] Another team, the Buckeyes Base Ball Club of Cincinnati, formed in 1865. In the late 1860s, the Buckeyes were a skilled baseball team and were starting to make themselves known nationally.