along the Alexauken The Flemington Neshanock BBC vs Newtown Picked - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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

https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-elysian-fields-dc82eb7b6165

Ticket for the Magnolia Ball Club 1844

at the Elysian Fields and Colonnade Hotel - Hoboken, New Jersey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cricket_team_in_North_America_in_1859

English touring cricket team 1859 Matches in Montreal, Hoboken, Philadelphia, Hamilton (Ontario), Rochester (NY)

http://hoboken.pastperfectonline.com/archive/B3B1CFE2-619A-4B34-86CD-532425251015

Harper’s Weekly Oct.1859, cricket and base ball matches at the Elysian Fields

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-1850s

Knickerbocker Club of NY & Excelsior Base Ball Club of Brooklyn

at the Elysian Fields, September 1859

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Knickerbocker_Base_Ball_Club_of_New_York

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984

The “Athletics” of Philadelphia circa mid-1860s

Elias Hicks Hayhurst standing center left in light-colored vest

Birth of the Logan Club

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

News of President Lincoln’s assassination

in The Beacon April 21, 1865

First practice July 28, 1865 at 2 o’clock

• n the Delaware Cricket Club grounds

Meeting for business at Reeve’s Photograph Room at 8 o’clock

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

July 28, 1865 July 21, 1865

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

“A base ball club has been

• rganized in this place.”

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

August 4, 1865 September 1, 1865 August 25, 1865 August 11, 1865

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

match game Aug 4th interesting game expected Aug 11th meet for practice Aug 25th meet for play Sept 1st

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

September 29, 1865 September 22, 1865 October 6, 1865

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

match game at Belvidere Sept 22nd married & single men Sept 29th match game vs Belvidere Oct 6th

The Warren Journal (newspaper), Belvidere, NJ 1865

Lambertville Logan vs Belvidere Club (NJ) in 1865

Belvidere won both matches 33-10 & 56-36

Currier & Ives (1866) The American National Game of Base Ball

Championship match between Mutual Club & Atlantic Base Ball Club in 1865

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/37292

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

List of officers and players for the Delaware Cricket Club, Logan Base Ball Club, and Junior Cricket Club

May 11, 1866 May 4, 1866

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866

“…annual meeting, all the members are expected to be present.”

June 15, 1866 June 22, 1866 July 27, 1866

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 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” Formation of clubs in Frenchtown and Flemington in June and July 1866

August 10, 1866 August 17, 1866 Sept 7, 1866

Base Ball in The Beacon newspaper

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866

formation of Young America Aug 10th prize game – ginger cake Aug 17th match game at Flemington Sept 7th

August 17, 1866

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866

Lambertville Logan vs Young America (youth team) & prize match game of base ball

August 24, 1866

The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984

Athletic BBC of Philadelphia

Hicks Hayhurst pictured center left

August 31, 1866

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866

The “Athletic” Game

Lambertville Logan vs Athletic BBC of Philadelphia

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866 Details from The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984

Why Lambertville?

Elias Hicks Hayhurst

Hayhurst umpired the prize match game in Lambertville, August 31 -

• ne week prior to the Athletic match

The Pennsylvania Journal of Dental Science, vol. 3, January 1876 no 1.

• Dr. Jeremiah Hayhurst

Lambertville Logan Club Treasurer (1865-66) Brother of Elias Hicks Hayhurst (Philadelphia Athletic)

www.ancestry.com

The Beacon (newspaper) Lambertville, NJ July 28, 1865

https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/october-1866-return-their-investment

Philadelphia Athletics and Brooklyn Atlantics, Harper’s Weekly, November 1866

September 7, 1866 September 7, 1866

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866 Photo of modern day Flemington Neshanock (at right)

Lambertville Logan vs Flemington Neshanock & Minerva Club (L’ville) vs Star Club (Flem.) youth clubs

www.neshanock.org

“Since base ball has attained the dignity of being

• ur ‘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 1867

No coverage throughout 1867 until…

BASE BALL

editorial by Clark Pierson

Logan Club officers and ball players

Directors:

• Col. Ashbel W. Angel (Captain)

Theodore Frelinghuysen Skillman (23) Theodore Abbott “recently admitted to practice” as lawyer in March 1864

July 28, 1865

1865 Logan Club Officers

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)

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

May 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 1866

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=10476198

Logan Club Captain A.W. Angel

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1884

“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

• n 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)

A.W. Angel Obituary

http://amanlypastime.blogspot.com/2015/05/for-union-dead.html

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

Civil War monument, Mary Sheridan Park, Lambertville

Lambertville Historical Society collection

Boozer’s Hardware House – 45 North Union Street, circa 1860s?

Lambertville Historical Society collection; The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866; Google Maps

J.F. Boozer scored one run & made eight outs during the prize match game, as a member of A.W. Angel’s team

William V. Cooley Club President (1865), VP (1866) James M. Robinson 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

http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/10823/Lambertville+2/Hunterdon+County+1873/New+Jersey/

Detail from Hunterdon County Atlas

Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1873 Property owned by Logan Club members next to the Hill School

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:9s161835r

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

http://newjerseycivilwargravestones.org/view.php?id=9510

Theodore Skillman grave site Mount Hope Cemetery

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, 1881

Lambertville Historical Society collection

Knights of the Mystic Chain

possibly Lambertville in 1870s?

Other local teams of note

October, 1866 September, 1866

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866

Flemington Neshannock Club vs Milford Club (66-27) & Neptune BBC of Easton vs Trenton BBC

“victory by the former by 18 or 19 runs”

Oct 12, 1866

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1866 The National Pastime: A Review of Baseball History, SABR, Spring 1984

Clubs formed in New Hope, PA and Stockton, NJ by Oct. 1866 Photo depicting a New Hope, PA amateur team circa 1870s

Mercer Museum Library – Bucks County Intelligencer “Clipping File” November 13, 1866

Formation of a base ball club in Doylestown & challenge from Newtown club for proposed game

• n the exhibition grounds

November 1866

Mercer Museum Library – Bucks County Intelligencer “Clipping File” November 20 & 27, 1866

Doylestown Tammany Club vs Newtown Penn Base Ball Club Tammany won both contests (40-37, 46-30)

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1867; Google Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligencer_(Doylestown,_Pennsylvania)

August 2, 1867 Photo of 10 East Court St Doylestown, PA – site of Intelligencer offices circa 1860s

“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, 1870

Great Base Ball Match at Lambertville, July 1870

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015651537/

Baseball team for the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) 1873

James A. Michener Art Museum

Base ball game outside Bucks County Prison, Doylestown, PA (1885)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c1d6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Princeton College 1896

Lambertville and New Hope, Images of America Series, James Mastrich

Lambertville Athletic Club circa 1900s

Lambertville Historical Society collection

Lambertville Athletic Club grandstand destroyed by flood October 1903

Lambertville Historical Society collection

Lambertville 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 collection

Lambertville Athletic Club circa late 1900s

Kline, standing back row third from left MacKay, manager, seated middle row center

Lambertville Historical Society collection

Baseball 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 collection

Lambertville Athletic Club 1915

Kline Case

Searching for the 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.”

July 28, 1865

The Beacon (newspaper), Lambertville, NJ 1865

Delaware Cricket Club grounds

1881

Detail from North Part of Lambertville [Village], F.W. Beers 1873 The Hunterdon County Republican, Flemington, NJ 1881

“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

• f the R.R.”

June, 1895 March, 1891

Cricket grounds

Google maps

Cricket grounds

(present day)

N Union St – north view N Union St – south view

photos taken by the author

Cricket grounds

(present day)

http://www.co.hunterdon.nj.us/pdf/c&h/HistoricalMarkerPolicy.pdf

Special thanks to my wife and family

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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 Eisen

Scott “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

• n the Lambertville Logan Base Ball

Club at: facebook.com/LambertvilleLoganBBC