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Sacramento Base Ball Club |
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Connect with UsFor more information on how to get involved, visit Sacramento Vintage Base Ball Club on Facebook or contact CentralValleyVintageBaseBall@gmail.com.
Captain: DJ "Teach" Latcham Co-captain: Curtis "Hammer" Piatt. |
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Club History
The Sacramento Base Ball Club is named after a real club established in 1859. Thanks to research posted on http://protoball.org/Sacramento_Base_Ball_Club we have found an article posted in the November 15, 1859 Sacramento Daily Union newspaper that announced the formation of the club. Furthermore, "The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball" by Kevin Nelson states:
"Sacramento can lay claim to the first active ballclub in the state: the Sacramento Base Ball Club, established in the closing months of 1859. This development caused feathers to be ruffled all over San Francisco, where a local newspaper wondered how Sacramento could have beaten California's largest city to the punch. Within days the San Francisco Base Ball Club was born."
"Sacramento can lay claim to the first active ballclub in the state: the Sacramento Base Ball Club, established in the closing months of 1859. This development caused feathers to be ruffled all over San Francisco, where a local newspaper wondered how Sacramento could have beaten California's largest city to the punch. Within days the San Francisco Base Ball Club was born."
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