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T. Pearsall of the Excelsiors (second from right): first baseman, physician, and friend of Alexander Babcock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/0267bcf0-d9f7-4fdc-8972-0f6ace5c7fde/image%2B13%2Ba%2BMosby%27s%2Band%2Ba%2Bbabcock%2BLARGE.jpg Blog - PRINTER, PLAYER, TURNCOAT, TRAITOR - Make it stand out Alexander Babcock (back row, third from right), posing with fellow members of the notorious irregular cavalry unit Mosby’s Rangers, who frightened even their own commander, General Robert E. Lee. Colonel John S. 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Jones, physician and President of the Excelsior baseball club of Brooklyn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1614874626321-XGYQ98Z393831DI4Y4Z2/L71JCMon.jpg Blog - The Man Who Invented Modern Pitching - Which Killed Him James Creighton’s breathtaking grave monument in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/why-one-of-the-first-baseball-clubs-was-named-after-a-scottish-shipbuilder monthly 0.5 2020-11-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1605797611264-K09J0VCPXMHUUE26BVQH/220px-Henry_Eckford.jpg Blog - WHAT'S AN ECKFORD? Why one of the earliest baseball clubs was named after a Scottish shipbuilder Henry Eckford (1775-1832), godfather of American shipbuilding. 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Why one of the earliest baseball clubs was named after a Scottish shipbuilder The Monitor’s officers https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/election-day-1871-the-killing-of-octavius-catto-and-integrated-baseball monthly 0.5 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1604341643727-R48C5Z1LW76EVM44Z6IJ/image%2B10.png Blog - Election Day 1871: The Killing of Integrated Baseball https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/sex-and-sox monthly 0.5 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1604324882306-EAOYMRVE9BI1HZCUXHFP/image%2B17.jpg Blog - Sex and Sox OG Sox: The 1867 Red Stockings invented the modern socks-forward baseball uni https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/baseball-men-and-civil-war-recruitment monthly 0.5 2020-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1600652510113-P77I2PNX8MRUVH49A6ET/8+F+a+LARGE+66th+N.Y.V.+Col.+Joseph+C.+Pinckney.+Bounties+paid+to+recruits+before+leaving+the+state%2C+%24129%2C+on+joining+the+regiment%2C+in+the+field%2C+13%2C+at+the+expiration+of+the+enlistment%2C+75%2C+making+in+all+%24217+%E2%80%A6.jpg Blog - Volunteers: Baseball Goes to War Union army units like the 66th NY volunteers were recruited by men of influence in the overlapping worlds of politics, volunteer firefighting and baseball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1600652629279-L5OFJW88GOB7UR9XS8P5/8+F+b+LARGE+ol._Joseph_C._Pinckney_jpg.jpg Blog - Volunteers: Baseball Goes to War Joseph C. Pinckney, fervent Abolitionist, important early member of New York state’s Republican party, Civil War commander, man-about-town and star second baseman for the Union club of Morrisania, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1600652585018-CA0J0XNVJV9JROALQ54T/8+G+LARGE.png Blog - Volunteers: Baseball Goes to War Frank Jones was a member of the Excelsiors, the first baseball club in Brooklyn. The war brought him to Washington, DC. In peacetime he recruited New York baseball stars for the Washington Nationals, giving them sinecures or no-show jobs in the Treasury Department. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/the-civil-war-and-baseball monthly 0.5 2020-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1600615868365-8MZWYFDTEDYVHWBKB4HP/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47e2-c261-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg Blog - Civil War Baseball as Remembered A baseball-themed political cartoon from 1860, when baseball was far more popular in the East and North than elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1600616000381-OPGLVJTLVNPS3ESAZ1PG/f8e8a89cdb3ff9b72776d2563e10ce7a.jpg Blog - Civil War Baseball as Remembered Winslow Homer’s painting of Union soldiers passing a lull in the fighting with a game of quoits. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/what-football-was-invented-by-a-teenage-baseball-player monthly 0.5 2020-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1599832976965-KX8JFMD3J29BGLH5HXX2/DEV7O4535REKJPWTWZRKIR6XF4.jpg Blog - A High School Baseball Player Invented Football -- What? 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Double-threat founding father Gerrit Smith Miller https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/the-father-of-baseball-all-13-of-them monthly 0.5 2020-09-16 https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/great-western-rr monthly 0.5 2020-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1599848842386-LLYOQ8KXTDP6T86W12NX/BB+clubs+canada+and+GW+RR.jpg Blog - Baseball AND THE RAILROAD The earliest baseball clubs in Canada were founded in cities along the Great Western Railway, which brought thousands of New Yorkers and other Americans to the Midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1599848957566-1LL89DICFCNHBTYN004B/unspecified.png Blog - Baseball AND THE RAILROAD The destruction of the South’s railroads by Union troops in the Civil War set back the sport of baseball in Dixie for at least a generation. Ironically, this photo was taken by Henry T. Anthony, a member of the Knickerbocker baseball club of New York City. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/baseball-in-chains monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1599829891795-FMD11SYSCWVF2LGH9G7J/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+09.10.18.png Blog - Baseball in a Civil War POW Camp In 1862 Union POWs at the Saiisbury, NC Confederate prison camp celebrated July 4th by playing baseball for a silver medal. The two sides were the New Yorkers and everybody else — officers only. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/feminism-and-baseballs-founding-fathers monthly 0.5 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1595606778423-2PHVH0R4DPWC3O11KWBV/Screen+Shot+2020-07-24+at+12.06.00.png Blog - Baseball, Fathers and Feminism Joseph B. Jones (in top hat and black coat) served as president of the Brooklyn Excelsiors and president of the National Association of Base Ball Players. He was also a boxer, gymnast and feminist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1595874871461-WFJ3H7NY3RPKVS62YMRD/7956411962_66627ec839_o.jpg Blog - Baseball, Fathers and Feminism A young woman working out with Indian clubs, which were imported by British soldiers from South Asia. Early 19th century feminists were divided on whether women should practice light exercise like calisthenics or compete in more strenuous sports like baseball. Emma Willard, Mary Lyon and other founders of the first women’s colleges stood in the latter camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1595874979732-DQ33843PPP9P2UUWRVSW/master-rbc-rbcmil-scrp7004101-001.jpg Blog - Baseball, Fathers and Feminism Anne Fitzhugh Miller and Susan B. 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This historic non-event did not occur on June 19, 1846. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/crashing-the-party monthly 0.5 2020-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587744193191-IB2VPVC448UQ1Y8JYI0Y/1+C+MED.jpg Blog - When Fans Crashed the Baseball Party We were not part of baseball’s original plan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587751479731-ZHMA7P8RZH6ZCUWUMYJJ/2020-04-24_14-03-05.jpg Blog - When Fans Crashed the Baseball Party Amateur Era sportswriters’ euphemisms for gamblers included “outside friends,” the “sporting fraternity” and “the fancy.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587750412061-P1TF35QRPEY23GFNAP51/5+E+LARGE.png Blog - When Fans Crashed the Baseball Party Game 1 of the 1860 championship series between the Excelsiors and Atlantics, played on the Excelsiors’ home field in Red Hook, Brooklyn. There is a public baseball diamond on this spot today. The buildings at center belong to the Excelsiors and the Brooklyn Yacht Club; the surrounding ships are docked along the Gowanus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587750458480-CLXSE4QW5Y19W4Y6YCHU/1.jpg Blog - When Fans Crashed the Baseball Party Amateur Era baseball players and the journalists who covered them were frightened and confused by the large crowds of fans that appeared at baseball games in Brooklyn in the late 1850s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587750497179-0C7VV0TVDW3R991105YA/7+P+MED++Oct.+22nd%2C+1866..jpg Blog - When Fans Crashed the Baseball Party https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/youngredstockings monthly 0.5 2020-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587403439136-4E0BL8ZM5YEE2OO5E2TT/download.jpeg Blog - The Cincinnati 20-somethings According to the conventional historical narrative, the late 1860s Red Stockings were a virtual All-star team of established stars hired away from clubs across the country. If that is true, then why were they so young? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587472621486-6YIXVCZXGE5950H7X6V3/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Cincinnati 20-somethings In modern baseball terminology Harry Wright served the Cincinnati Red Stockings as Assistant GM, manager, scout, VP of Marketing, head of Media Relations, strength coach, pitching coach, batting coach, traveling secretary, head of analytics, centerfielder — and their entire bullpen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587473540167-ZKB9A34FLOFAAEDCBGNC/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Cincinnati 20-somethings 21-year-old Cal McVey in 1871. His father had to co-sign his first contract with the Cincinnati Red Stockings because he was a minor. He starred for the undefeated 1869 club as a 19-year-old. https://howbaseballhappened.com/blog/baseballandepidemicdisease monthly 0.5 2020-04-21 https://howbaseballhappened.com/previousbook daily 0.75 2026-02-01 https://howbaseballhappened.com/previousbook/bridge-looks-7n54t monthly 0.5 2026-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1611253880448-CUIEU5S6VB29QXTMJ4UL/EsRGEPwXIBQtbhL.jpg PREVIOUS BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1590780020246-8OUMXHUCEYY6DQD1CVPP/2020-05-29_15-16-23.jpg PREVIOUS BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587180836514-RUQFNRRUUVCWA7LHT2W4/XqdQk2tm.jpg PREVIOUS BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587181581320-WJLWE3B8786R85J26R92/dbHYuOsE.png PREVIOUS BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587436748880-W2COK308S4ML0F8PA50U/image-asset.jpeg PREVIOUS BOOK https://howbaseballhappened.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2020-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587097800973-ELRMDHLT03H446HYM3I5/Screen+Shot+2018-09-07+at+20.25.43.png Images This 1866 “bird’s-eye view” by John Bachmann shows why New Yorkers crossed the river to New Jersey to play baseball starting in the 1840s — they ran out of open space. In the lower lefthand corner you can see two games under way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587097967012-FHH1EVX8J7DM997972V4/IMAGE+0.png Images Fans invented themselves. To the surprise and shock of journalists and baseball players, they came uninvited to games in 1850s Brooklyn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587098004527-9KXLMLONMSVPU5FNN9PG/image+6..jpg Images Baseball’s Dr. Frankenstein, Brooklyn Excelsiors star James Creighton invented modern pitching, which made him famous and then killed him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587098049319-677JSW34XSYX5MSATYB8/image+10.png Images Civil Rights activist and baseball man Octavius Catto was shot dead in the street in Philadelphia on Election Day 1871. He had successfully integrated the military and Philadelphia’s streetcar system, but in 1867 his African American baseball club, the Pythians, failed to integrate baseball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587301431053-X58A6AUU7GKCI7WOZQRL/jweG2Xd8.jpg Images The New York Knickerbockers did not invent baseball or racism, but after the Pythian affair in 1867, Knickerbocker James Whyte Davis (seated at center) helped draw baseball’s baseball’s original color line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587301243005-VJ1BB6WUQCDLZBGEML0R/1946.png Images The claim that the first baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19th, 1846 is only slightly less ridiculous than the idea that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. That did not stop both towns from holding 100th birthday parties for baseball. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587301359832-IQ24P6E31JI3TUWN9HAA/image+13+a+Mosby%27s+and+a+babcock+LARGE.jpg Images A forgotten part of Civil War history is the many Northerners who fought for the Confederacy because they were pro-slavery. Some were prominent baseball players, like the New Jersey-born Alexander Babcock (standing third from right), who played with the Brooklyn Atlantics — and fought in the Union army — before Lincoln’s plans to free the slaves led him to join the infamous Confederate irregular cavalry unit Mosby’s Rangers. After the war, Babcock founded an early baseball club in Richmond, Virginia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587302219105-4OPRXUYFAA52X6G8THT6/image%2B17.jpg Images The late 1860s Cincinnati Red Stockings invented the modern baseball uniform, whose knee-high colored stockings became the club’s name and a famous brand. Hundreds of clubs since have been named in the same way, among them today’s Red Sox, White Sox, Cardinals, Royals and Tigers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e90eb4f6acde84a269e014d/1587506723195-CQKD49NBCDYHHSU35GDS/8+A+7th+REg+depart+LARGE.jpg Images The socially exclusive 7th New York National Guard (State Militia) Regiment, shown marching off to war seven days after the shelling of Ft. Sumter, was full of amateur ballplayers. The unit’s return was reported by Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times less than two months later on June 5 1861: “The ball grounds at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, begin to wear a very lively look. 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