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Vintage base ball is baseball presented as if being played by rules and customs from an earlier period in the sport's history. Games are typically played using rules and uniforms from the 19th century. Vintage base ball is not only a competitive game, but also a reenactment of baseball life similar to American Civil War reenactment. Players ...
Dates refer to NABBP membership, not baseball activity or legal organization, but not all clubs retained membership annually; in particular, the Civil War curtailed membership for 1862 to 1865. Newark, New Jersey is one of the cities to the west across the Hudson River from New York City. Eight Newark clubs were sometime members and two more ...
The Knickerbocker Antiquarian Base Ball Club of Newark, New Jersey continued to play old-fashioned baseball at least until 1865. After the Civil War, old-timers still put on exhibitions of traditional baseball at picnics and charity events.
After the 1865 season, the Atlantics became the first baseball team to visit the White House. Arthur Gorman , one of the founders of the Washington Nationals Base Ball Club and an acquaintance of President Andrew Johnson, organized a tournament featuring his team, the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics.
Baseball (1845–1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena, California: Self-published. Ryczek, William J. (1998). When Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865–1870. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0514-7. Wright, Marshall D. (2000). The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857–1870.
Otto Botticher (19 May 1811 – 1 July 1886) [1] was a German-born painter and lithographer best known for his 1863 rendering of a baseball game at a prisoner of war camp during the American Civil War. [2] That illustration, Union Prisoners at Salisbury, NC, was based on Botticher's experience as a prisoner at the camp in 1862. [2]
When Johnny came sliding home: the post-Civil War baseball boom, 1865-1870. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786405145. Spink, Alfred Henry (1911). The National Game. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809323043. Terry, James L. (2002). Long Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884. McFarland & Company. ISBN 9780786412297.
The Union Leagues were established to promote loyalty to the Union of the United States of America, to support the policies of newly elected 16th President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865, served 1861–1865) and to assure his reelection in 1864, and to combat what they believed to be the treasonous words and actions of anti-war, anti-black ...