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FIST BALL TEAMIN THIS VICINITYFORMED IN 1859aginierihAtcaFtHTVOThe first baseball match of record j in Orange County that v/e can find !ha trace of was played in 1859 between the Highland nine of New Windsor and the Hudson River club of Newburgh. It was won by the latter, and the score was 2S and 23. We are not sure where tMs game was played. None of the participants areliving, so far as can be learned.William H. Kelly, principal at j dc this writing of the Broadway school, Newburgh, and who became cme ot the pitchers on the Hudson Rivers, started with the Newburghs, and 'Ms name appears on the tally sheer of that club in the tie match played with the Hudson Rivers in 1SG0. Other members of the Newburghs ^ were Isaac Martin, Thomas Harris, William Lisle, Fred Banks, Hiram S. Brewster, Ebenezer Adams, George H. Chandler and George George. All hut Mr. Kelly have passed on.Of the Hudson River players all are dead. They were John Miller, cr E. Gerry Stevens, Stephen King, Tv.anspbatbal,wlt;thBiartbL. Smith. W. C. Miller, Dr. Straw, ]Ba. -r- I T)S. W. Miller, S. B. Reeve, George W. j H Powell. 1frThe Newburghs were the first nine m formed (1S56) in this vicinity in thejci •infancy of the national game. They] were soon followed by the Highlands. 1 of New Windsor. The membership ; ]' of these clubs was composed of rep-ja]resentative citizens, as distinguished j t1 from the Mutuals of New York, for . t example, or the Haymakers of Lsjis- 1 Lngburgh, xvlio fa their latter days. * became semi-professionalized. _ Of modern baseball Jack Barry, of New-' burgh, son of Michael Barry, became a player of national reputation, and a was on the Buffalo, Montreal, Wash- e' jpgton and Boston nines- It was bti«- ^'tnihtural that Newburgh should have 5developed at least one great profess- J ional baseball player, for ibis splen- ^ did sport was indigenous to the soil,, ’as 31. were. Two generations lived j in an atmosphere that was charged1 with the electrical enthusiasm of * clean amateur baseball that started on its decline in 2S15S. when the ^ cities began to strengthen their Jmines by picking up players from the __smaller local clubs, and ceasing j*0 ^be distinctly representative ofcoTnmunily. iFor example: Al Spaulding, who ^pitched for Rockford. Illinois, was ^ offered ?10 a week to work in a ^ si ore in Chicago, it being understood ^ that he would play on a team in that ‘ city. Such a condition could not last ^long. Teartis like the Hudson Ravers. of Newburgh, the WallkBls. of j ?v7idd3etown, and the Delawares, of _ port Jervis, disbanded rather than ; resort, to such tactics io remain in, ’she -race. - '•
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Middletown Daily Herald
Middletown, New York, US
Sat, Apr 09, 1921
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