Possibly the oldest known baseball tickets discovered

[ramram]

The oldest tickets that I have seen are the 1863 Grand Match at Hoboken tickets. This is from Barry's 2005 auction -

Rob M.

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[Marmeduke]

Following you will find the photos of the tickets from the article. Great site you have here. Any info is appreciated. Colin Twing

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[baseball tourist]

Thanks for posting these everyone! Great items.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Marmeduke

Following you will find the photos of the tickets from the article. Great site you have here. Any info is appreciated. Colin Twing

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Hey Colin,
I know from the article that you are the one that discovered these tickets.
Very cool! Thanks for taking the time to post the closeup photos and welcome to net54.
Congrats on your historic find!
Best,
Scott

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by ramram

The oldest tickets that I have seen are the 1863 Grand Match at Hoboken tickets. This is from Barry's 2005 auction -

Rob M.

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Rob,
Thanks for posting this!

[batsballsbases]

This is why I love the Memorabilia side ! Thanks for posting the Pics. A great find hope you do well with them!

[barrysloate]

Rob- those 1863 Grand Match tickets were admittance for a cricket match. From what I've read from newspaper accounts, and cited in my text, no baseball game was played due to bad weather. They are undoubtedly very early, but I don't feel comfortable calling them baseball tickets.

[Bumpus Jones]

here's my oldest...

[19cbb]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Rob- those 1863 Grand Match tickets were admittance for a cricket match. From what I've read from newspaper accounts, and cited in my text, no baseball game was played due to bad weather. They are undoubtedly very early, but I don't feel comfortable calling them baseball tickets.

Barry, besides the benefit cricket games a strange base ball match was also played.

St. George's v. Base Ball
A strange mix of 18 cricket and base ball players against 9 baseballists...

Christopher Devine has a brief but funny account of the game involving little George Wright in his 'Harry Wright' book. Page 23.

[barrysloate]

Thanks Jimmy, I've never seen that. It's a bit gimmicky so not a real baseball contest.

[ramram]

Interesting Jimmy. I hadn't ever seen that either. I guess if there was ever a point in time to say that the game of cricket in the US transitioned into baseball, you couldn't point to a better moment than that game!

Rob M.

[khkco4bls]

here are my earliest pieces.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by khkco4bls

here are my earliest pieces.

Hey Kevin,
1866- wow, those are some early baseball items!! Do you know what state the Monitor Base Ball Club played in? Just curious....

Thanks for sharing these!