When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime

Prominent Players and Clubs

xix Prominent Players and Clubs Philadelphia Raymond Burr—Member of the Pythian Base Ball Club, African American, Pythian Club representative at the 1867 Pennsylvania Association of Amateur Base Ball Players (paabbp) convention Octavius Catto—Member and officer of the Pythian Base Ball Club, African American, Union army veteran, instructor at Banneker Institute, political organizer Thomas Fitzgerald—Cofounder of the Athletic Base Ball Club (president , 1861–66), Republican Party political organizer, owner and editor of the City Item, playwright, president of the National Association of Base Ball Players in 1863 Hicks Hayhurst—Member and president of the Athletic Base Ball Club, president of the paabbp (1867) Significant Clubs Athletic Base Ball Club City Item Base Ball Club Excelsior Base Ball Club (African American) Keystone Base Ball Club L’Overture Base Ball Club (African American) Olympic Base Ball Club Philadelphia Base Ball Club Pythian Base Ball Club (African American) Richmond Alexander Babcock—“Father of Richmond baseball,” deserted the Union army for the Confederacy during the Civil War, established the Richmond Base Ball Club, established the Pastime Base Ball Club, owner of an ice delivery business xx prominent players and clubs Henry Boschen—Founder of the Pacific Base Ball Club, led baseball revival in Richmond in 1875, owner of a Richmond shoe factory Edward Cohen—Banker, first president of the Richmond Base Ball Club, president of Richmond’s Kesher Shel Barzel lodge, a “pioneer of Richmond Jewry,” delegate at the Virginia Association of Base Ball Players in 1866 Significant Clubs Old Dominion Base Ball Club Pacific Base Ball Club Pastime Base Ball Club Reindeer Base Ball Club (African American) Richmond Base Ball Club Robert E. Lee Base Ball Club Southern Base Ball Club Union Base Ball Club (composed of federal officers) Washington dc Charles Douglass—Son of Frederick Douglass, African American, served in the Union army, member of the Alert Base Ball Club, member of the Mutual Base Ball Club, federal government employee Arthur Gorman—U.S. senator (Maryland), president of the nabbp (1867), personal friend of President Andrew Johnson, member and officer of the National Base Ball Club Nicholas Young—Federal government employee, member of the Olympic Base Ball Club, officer in the naabbp, napbbp, and National League Significant Clubs Alert Base Ball Club (African American) Capital Base Ball Club Creighton Base Ball Club Jefferson Base Ball Club Mutual Base Ball Club (African American) National Base Ball Club Olympic Base Ball Club Potomac Base Ball Club WhenBaseball WentWhite ...