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On the north edge of town, along the Alexauken
The Flemington Neshanock BBC vs Newtown “Picked Nine” Club
Annual Memorial Day match at Pickering Field Newtown, Pennsylvania
photo by Bucks County Tintype, 2015
Scott “Snuffy” Hengst [kneeling first row, fourth from left]
The early days of base ball
in Lambertville, NJ
A historical review circa 1865-1866
by Scott “Snuffy” Hengst
The Flemington Neshanock BBC vs Elkton Eclipse (MD) during match at Howell Living History Farm, Lambertville, New Jersey Scott “Snuffy” Hengst [kneeling first row, third from right]
PechuKucha Presentations on the Lambertville Logan and cousin Dave Zearfoss -
catcher for the New York & St. Louis clubs (NL) circa 1890-1900
Early influences
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-olympic-ball-club-of-philadelphia-83e80e305f5e
Ticket for the Magnolia Ball Club 1844
at the Elysian Fields and Colonnade Hotel - Hoboken, New Jersey
https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-elysian-fields-dc82eb7b6165
English touring cricket team 1859
Matches in Montreal, Hoboken, Philadelphia,
Hamilton (Ontario), Rochester (NY)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_North_America_in_1859
Harper’s Weekly Oct.1859, cricket and base ball matches at the Elysian Fields http://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/archive/B3B1CFE2-619A-4B34-86CD-532425251015
Knickerbocker Club of NY & Excelsior Base Ball Club of Brooklyn
at the Elysian Fields, September 1859
http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/ancient.html;
http://www.19cbaseball.com/image-knickerbocker-and-excelsior-baseball-teams.html;
https://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/game-sport-baseball-1850shttps://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Knickerbocker_Base_Ball_Club_of_New_York
The “Athletics” of Philadelphia circa mid-1860s
Elias Hicks Hayhurst standing center left in light-colored vest
The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984Birth of the Logan Club
News of
President
Lincoln’s
assassination
in
The Beacon
April 21, 1865
The Beacon (newspaper),
Lambertville, NJ 1865Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
July 28, 1865
July 21, 1865
“A base ball club has been
organized in this place.”
First practice July 28, 1865 at 2 o’clock
on the Delaware Cricket Club grounds
Meeting for business at Reeve’s
Photograph Room at 8 o’clock
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
August 4, 1865
match game Aug 4th
interesting game expected Aug 11th
meet for practice Aug 25th
meet for play Sept 1st
August 25, 1865
August 11, 1865
September 1, 1865
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
September 22, 1865 October 6, 1865
September 29, 1865
match game at Belvidere Sept 22nd
married & single men Sept 29th
match game vs Belvidere Oct 6th
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865Lambertville Logan vs Belvidere Club (NJ) in 1865
Belvidere won both matches 33-10 & 56-36
The Warren Journal (newspaper), Belvidere, NJ 1865Championship match between Mutual Club & Atlantic Base Ball Club in 1865 Currier & Ives (1866) The American National Game of Base Ball
Base-ball match between the “Athletics” of Philadelphia,
Pa., and the “Atlantics” of Brooklyn, N.Y., played at
Philadelphia, October 30 1865
Sketched by Joseph Boggs Beale
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/37292Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
May 11, 1866
May 4, 1866
“…annual meeting, all the members
are expected to be present.”
List of officers and players for the
Delaware Cricket Club, Logan Base
Ball Club, and Junior Cricket Club
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
Formation of clubs in Frenchtown and
Flemington in June and July 1866
June 22, 1866
June 15, 1866
July 27, 1866
“match game of base ball... between
the first nine of the Logan Base Ball
Club and a picked nine of the
Delaware Cricket Club”
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper
August 17, 1866
August 10, 1866
Sept 7, 1866
formation of Young America Aug 10th
prize game – ginger cake Aug 17th
match game at Flemington Sept 7th
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Lambertville Logan vs Young America (youth team) &
prize match game of base ball
August 24, 1866
August 17, 1866
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866August 31, 1866
Athletic BBC of
Philadelphia
Hicks Hayhurst pictured center left
The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History,
SABR, Spring 1984The “Athletic” Game
Lambertville Logan vs Athletic BBC of Philadelphia
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Why Lambertville?
Elias Hicks Hayhurst
Hayhurst umpired the prize match
game in Lambertville, August 31 -
one week prior to the Athletic match
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866
Details from The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984Dr. Jeremiah Hayhurst
Lambertville Logan Club Treasurer (1865-66)
Brother of Elias Hicks Hayhurst (Philadelphia Athletic)
www.ancestry.com
The Beacon (newspaper) Lambertville, NJ
The Pennsylvania Journal of Dental Science, vol. 3, January 1876 no 1.
July 28, 1865Philadelphia Athletics and Brooklyn Atlantics, Harper’s Weekly, November 1866 https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/october-1866-return-their-investment
Lambertville Logan vs Flemington Neshanock &
Minerva Club (L’ville) vs Star Club (Flem.) youth clubs
September 7, 1866 September 7, 1866
www.neshanock.org
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866
Photo of modern day Flemington Neshanock (at right)No coverage throughout 1867 until…
BASE BALL
editorial by Clark Pierson
“Since base ball has
attained the dignity of being
our ‘national game,’ it has
become a ponderous and
elaborate affair… Rules, as
rigid as those which govern
the proceedings of
Congress… goodly volumes
are published discussing the
size, shape and weight of
balls and bats… A club of
novices practices daily,
sometimes to the neglect of
everything else, and the
sore annoyance of parents
and employers…”
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1867Logan Club officers and ball players
1865 Logan Club Officers
July 28, 1865
President: William V. Cooley (46yo)
Vice President: James M. Robinson (45)
Secretary: Judson Roberts (19, father
Charles worked for the Penn R.R.)
Treasurer: Dr. Jeremiah Hayhurst (dentist)
Directors:
Col. Ashbel W. Angel (Captain)
Theodore Frelinghuysen Skillman (23)
Theodore Abbott “recently admitted to
practice” as lawyer in March 1864
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865May 11, 1866
1866 Logan Club Officers
President: James M. Robinson
Vice President: William V. Cooley
Secretary: T.F. Skillman
Treasurer: Dr. Jeremiah Hayhurst
Captain: Theodore Abbott Esq.
Directors:
C.A. Skillman Esq.,
Augustus C. Barber,
C.D. Coryell
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Logan Club Captain A.W. Angel
November 2, 1866
http://www.topogs.org/bcw_angel.htm
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10476198A.W. Angel Obituary
“Colonel Ashbel W. Angel
had faced death upon the sandy
plains and amid the rugged
mountains, had stood exposed in
the thickest of the fight in
numerous battles, when shot and
shell spread carnage and death
on every hand, had come forth
with honorable wounds, and in
the pursuit of an honorable living
in a distant land, was stricken
down almost as suddenly as by
the stroke of a cannon shot, far
from home and friends he loved,
amid strangers. He is called to
his final resting place, and with
his bereaved and sorrowing family
we can but cherish his memory
and mourn his loss.”
July 11, 1884 (died July 5th in Panama)
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1884Civil War monument, Mary Sheridan Park, Lambertville
A.W. Angel’s brother
Capt. Charles Augustus
Company A, 35th New Jersey Volunteers Infantry
killed in action near Ruff’s Mill, Georgia
July 4, 1864
http://amanlypastime.blogspot.com/2015/05/for-union-dead.htmlBoozer’s Hardware House – 45 North Union Street, circa 1860s? Lambertville Historical Society collection
J.F. Boozer scored one run & made
eight outs during the prize match game,
as a member of A.W. Angel’s team
Lambertville Historical Society collection; The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866; Google MapsWilliam V. Cooley James M. Robinson Club President (1865), VP (1866) Club VP (1865), President (1866) History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, James P. Snell, 1881
Detail from Hunterdon County Atlas
Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1873
Property owned by Logan Club members next to the Hill School
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/10823/Lambertville+2/Hunterdon+County+1873/New+Jersey/Detail from View of Lambertville, New Jersey
O.H. Bailey & Co., 1883
School house on Coryell’s Hill and adjacent open field used for informal ball games
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9s161835rTheodore Skillman grave site Mount Hope Cemetery http://newjerseycivilwargravestones.org/view.php?id=9510
Augustus C. Barber – President, Lambertville National Bank
Annual Report, Comptroller of the Currency to the Second Session of the
Fifty-Fourth Congress of the United States, December 7, 1896.
Knights of Pythias –
Theo. Abbott, A. W. Angel,
A. C. Barber
History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New Jersey,
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, James P. Snell, 1881Knights of the Mystic Chain
possibly Lambertville in 1870s?
Lambertville Historical Society collectionOther local teams of note
Flemington Neshannock Club vs Milford Club (66-27) &
Neptune BBC of Easton vs Trenton BBC
“victory by the former by 18 or 19 runs”
September, 1866 October, 1866
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866Oct 12, 1866 Clubs formed in New Hope, PA and Stockton, NJ by Oct. 1866 Photo depicting a New Hope, PA amateur team circa 1870s The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866 The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984
Formation of a base ball club in
Doylestown & challenge from
Newtown club for proposed game
on the exhibition grounds
November 1866
Mercer Museum Library – Bucks County Intelligencer “Clipping File” November 13, 1866Doylestown Tammany Club vs Newtown Penn Base Ball Club
Tammany won both contests (40-37, 46-30)
Mercer Museum Library – Bucks County Intelligencer “Clipping File” November 20 & 27, 1866August 2, 1867
Photo of 10 East Court St
Doylestown, PA – site of
Intelligencer offices circa 1860s
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1867; Google Maps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligencer_(Doylestown,_Pennsylvania)Great Base Ball Match at Lambertville, July 1870
“A base ball match was played between the
‘Fat Nine’ vs. the ‘Lean Nine.’
The ‘well favored’… aggregate weight 1836 lbs.
The ‘ill-favored’… aggregate weight 1084 lbs.
Thousands assembled to see the sport;
no circus ever drew so large a crowd…
When the ‘well-favored’ trotted out their elephant, there was
a perfect yell from the spectators…”
Hunterdon County Republican (newspaper), July 12, 1870Baseball team for the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) 1873 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015651537/
Base ball game outside Bucks County Prison, Doylestown, PA (1885) James A. Michener Art Museum
Princeton College 1896 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c1d6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Lambertville Athletic Club circa 1900s Lambertville and New Hope, Images of America Series, James Mastrich
Lambertville Athletic Club grandstand destroyed by flood
October 1903
Lambertville Historical Society collectionLambertville
Athletic Club
circa 1904
Notable players include:
Kline, catcher, sitting
front row right
Case, pitcher and right
fielder, standing back
row second from left
MacKay, manager,
seated middle row center
Lambertville Historical Society collectionLambertville Athletic Club circa late 1900s
Kline, standing back row third from left
MacKay, manager, seated middle row center
Lambertville Historical Society collectionBaseball game in Lambertville circa late 1900s-1910s
Photo depicts a game at the rebuilt Ely Field ball grounds,
note taller backstop fencing, larger grandstand netting on roof
Lambertville Historical Society collectionLambertville Athletic Club 1915
Case
Kline
Lambertville Historical Society collectionSearching for the Delaware Cricket Club grounds
July 28, 1865
Delaware Cricket Club grounds
“The Club will meet for play this
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock
upon the grounds of the Delaware
Cricket Club, at the head of Union
Street.”
The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865“Lot bounded on
the north by
Matthews, on the
east by the River
Rd, on the south
by lands of
Weeden.. And on
the west by lands
of the R.R.”
Detail from North Part of Lambertville [Village], F.W. Beers 1873
The Hunterdon County Republican, Flemington, NJ 1881 1881March, 1891
Cricket
grounds
June, 1895Cricket grounds
(present day)
Google mapsN Union St – north view N Union St – south view
Cricket grounds
(present day)
photos taken by the authorhttp://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/pdf/c&h/HistoricalMarkerPolicy.pdf
Special thanks to my wife and family
&
Lambertville Historical Society
Lambertville Free Public Library
Hunterdon County Library
The Mercer Museum Library
David William Tilden Zearfoss (RIP)
Jeremy Watterson at Montana Baseball History
Brad “Brooklyn” Shaw and John Zinn at Flemington Neshanock BBC
Liz Sheehan at PechaKucha Lambertville-New Hope
Suzanne Gitomer, Liz Riegel, Fred EisenScott “Snuffy” Hengst is a professional researcher, amateur genealogist, and 19th century base ball enthusiast living with his family in Lambertville. He spent seven seasons working at Major League Baseball – Advanced Media, supporting the live gameday platforms during the nascent years of the company’s web streaming technologies. An active ballist for the Flemington Neshanock Base Ball Club since 2010, he’s played in matches under rules of the 1860’s and 1870’s from Maryland to Massachusetts, on pastural farmsteads like Howell Living History Farm, and in the middle of a Civil War fort on George’s Island in Boston Harbor. You can follow his occasional postings on the Lambertville Logan Base Ball Club at: facebook.com/LambertvilleLoganBBC
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