Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-28
BASEBALL STATISTICS
THAT GO AWAY BACK
The Old Game is 30 Years Olo
This Year, But just Now
Pretty Sick.

"Thc Father Of Baseball is title
that hrs been variously applied, but out
in Chicago is veteran ball player who
he's compiled table Of first performances
that beats anything along that line Ihnt
has yet been gathered together This
research statisticinn Is John s. Burke. who
played with the Pnstimes, Of Chicago,
more than fifty years ago. He aver
ball game WAS played in 1880, making
the voungster SS years old
His statistics follow:
The first game of baseball WAS played
in Now England SS years ago DO the
game is just that old.
The Olympics, of Philadelphia, the
first renl Baseball club, was organized In
lS33
The knickerbockcrs were New York's
first baseball team. They were organized
in lSI5
The first regular match game WAS played
! in New York City on June l9 lS4o,
the New York and knickerbocker clubs
| being the contestants
| The first regular baseball association,
| called the National Association, WAS
organized in New York in 1887.
| The first baseball convention was held
| in New York, January %, 1857.
| The National Association OF Baseball
! PLAYERS Was organized NJ New York IN
| 1853
The first games PLAYED 10 which m
| admission fec was charged were played
in Flushipg, l.. l., in 1889.
ExcrLsrons FIRST TOURISTS.
The first real tour Of baseball club
took place in 1850. when the Excelsiors
Of roo lyn, medc trip through
Western New York. Pennsylvania and
, Mary md
The first games for . real championship
took place at Hoboken, ), j., opposite
| New York. in 1853 and 1889, the Eagle,
| Co ham, Empire and KnickcrbocSer
| clubs being the contestants
The first real championship team WA,
the Fckfords, Of Brooklyn, which went
through the season Of 1888 without losing
single game. Their nine includcd
Beach, catcher: Sprague, pitcher; Al
Reach. first base: Jimmy w ood, second
base: Ed Duffy. third bnse; Dcvyr,
sbortstop. NYanalt. Josh Snyder and
Swandell. in the field Fifty years ago
the Fxcelsiors. of Chicago defeated the
Bluff VityS. Of Memphis Tenn, by
score Of l57 to !.
BLUFF CITY nrArEN l57 10 |.
The same wear the Stars, of Brooklyn,
defeated the Eagles, o! Flatbush, l.. l.,
by o6 To 0.
Arthur Cummings Of the Stars. Of
Brooklyn, was the first curve pitcher.
Tommy Bond Of Hartford, Conn.
was the first underhand pitcher.
Lee Richmond, OF Worcester, Mass,
pitched the frst no-hit game.
The Mutuals, Of New York, defeated
the Chicago White Stockings in 1870
by TO o. the frst game of that sort on
record
DOUBLE PLAY INVENTED.
Dickey Pierce. Of the Atlantics Of
BROOKLYN made the first double play
ever made in a professional game while
playing with the Atlantic. OF Brooklyn
against the Cincinnati Reds in 1859
Edgar Cuthbert, of the Chicago White
Stockings Of 1870, was the first 20 run the
circuit OF the bases in Is seconds.
Charles Anthony was the first under
hand amateur pitcher
John Bachli was the first amateur curve
pitcher
Laury Rees was the first professional
curve pitcher
NJ. Golden was the first underhand
professional pitcher.
The first great games between teams
representing rival cities took place in
October, 1886, when the Atlantics. of
Brooklyn, went TO Philadelphia TO meet
the Athletics. In that series the Athletics
won the championship and held il through
1865, 1867 and 1868.
The first games for gold medals were
played in 1865, and Mcbride, Radcliffe,
Fsler, Reach and Sensenderfer won five
Of them while playing with the Athletics.
NATIONALS 60 WEST
The first trans-Allegheny tour was made
by the Nationals, of Washington, in 1867
This club, at its own expense, visited Gin
cinnati, Chicago and all the large cities
in the West, their only defeat being at
Chicago, where they were taken into camp
by the Forest Citys, Of Rockford
The Forest Cltys at this time claimed
TO be the first salared team
The first full professional team however
were the Cincinnati Reds, organized in
1865
The first great catcher was Robert
Ferguson OF the Atlantics OF Brooklyn
and the hrst great pitcher George Zettlein
Of the same club
The first president Of the National
League was Ex-Governor Bulkely, Of
Hartford, Conn
The national agreement came into
being in 1853 and in 1900 the American
League came into the field in competition
with the National League, whioi. has been
IN existence since 1875.
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