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Old 12-15-2001, 07:29 AM
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Default Any 19th Century Experts? * Help *

Posted By: Jaime Leiderman

According to Preston Orem's book "Baseball 1845-1881",
the Enterprise BBC played the 1865 "season" going 0-8.
This club played like other pioneer clubs at Hoboken's Elysian Fields.
The club did play until the early 1870's.

3 and maybe more players went on to play "Pro" baseball with other clubs when the Associations were created.

According to Fred Ivor-Campbell, from SABR Publications, the Enterprise Club of Brooklyn played at least through 1870, and included among its players at one time or another Ed Pinkham, Bob Ferguson and George Hall, who later went on to professional careers. (Records of these players can be found on baseball-reference.com)

If someone has Marshall D.Wright's book The National Association of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870, published by McFarland in 2000, rosters and listing of games can be found, and it could give me and others interested in baseball history some leads to find the "mistery" player.




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