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Index Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations abolition, xv, 19, 52 Alert Base Ball Club (Manchester va), 34, 35 Alert Base Ball Club (Washington dc), xix, 9, 10, 13, 14, 53–58, 70–72, 96–100, 106–12, 175, 181, 184 amateurism; and baseball, xiv, 151, 171– 74; and the National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players, 177, 178, 188, 189, 230n77; and race, 181 Ashby Base Ball Club (Richmond), 28, 31, 40, 41, 122 Atlanta, 22, 24, 30–33, 114, 123, 124, 129, 163, 172 Atlantic Base Ball Club (Brooklyn), xi, 28, 39, 42, 45, 60, 129, 156 Athletic Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), 5, 6, 39, 42–47, 53, 59, 137, 149, 151–54, 161; baseball grounds, xi, 53, 57, 70, 73, 74, 139, 140, 149; and integrated play, 84– 87; leadership in, 60–66, 77, 80–83, 114 Babcock, Alexander, xviii, 22, 27, 32, 41, 117, 119, 157, 158, 160; and military service , 28–30, 129, 156; and politics, 161, 162, 195 Bachelor Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), 42, 77 Baltimore, 11, 16, 33, 42, 49, 120, 121, 128, 157, 179; and integrated baseball, 110 Banneker Institute, xviii, 43, 49, 52, 55, 147 Bidgood, J. V., 27, 37 Boschen, Henry, xix, 165–67 Boston, xi, 11, 44, 48, 141, 151, 164, 167 Bowen, Sayles J., 12 boxing, xiii, 128, 157 Brooklyn, xi, 11, 28, 42, 45, 60, 156, 163, 174, 176, 177 Burr, Raymond, xviii, 54, 69, 70, 75–80, 104, 194, 195 Capital Base Ball Club (Washington dc), xix, 91, 184 Catto, Octavius, xviii, xix, 42, 43, 47, 53, 55, 81–83, 87, 88, 104, 193, 198; and 1871 election, 142–48, 154–55; teaching of, 137–39; and youth, 49–52 Chadwick, Henry, viii, xiii, xiv, 19, 30, 37, 38, 66, 75, 91, 94, 114, 125, 153, 172 Charleston, 22, 24, 30, 50, 123, 124, 126; baseball and violence in, 129–33, 163 Chicago, 11, 48, 93, 100, 141, 164, 178; and integrated baseball, 141, 173, 182, 195; Nationals tour to, 94, 95, 151 The Citadel, 124, 129, 132 Civil Rights Act of 1866, ix, 26 Civil War: and baseball, vii, 4, 5, 11–14, 28, 42, 45, 51, 162; black ballplayers service in, 13–14; damage caused to baseball cities by, xvi, 22–25. See also The Lost Cause 248 index Cohen, Edward, xix, 27, 32, 35 Confederacy, ix, xvi, xviii, 4, 21, 23, 27– 31, 38, 118, 122, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 156, 157, 167, 169–70, 197 Confederate Base Ball Clubs, 122, 126, 167, 170, 195 Confederates. See Confederacy Constitutional amendments, ix, 26, 33, 64, 142, 143, 198 cricket, vii, 3–6, 15, 45, 50, 60, 132 Cuban Giants, 192, 193 Democrats, 3, 6, 61, 63, 65, 82, 105, 130, 138, 142 Douglass, Charles, xi, xix, 4, 9, 10–12, 14, 96–99, 182; government employment of, 107, 108, 172, 183; and integration, 108–11; youth of, 13 Douglass, Frederick, xi, xix, 47, 99, 145, 147, 158, 173, 188 Douglass, Lewis, 13, 173, 185 DuBois, W. E. B., 59, 82, 172 Excelsior Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 48–50, 58, 59, 74, 163 Fifteenth Amendment, ix, 26, 64, 142, 143, 198. See also Constitutional amendments Fisler, Weston, 58, 70, 85, 152 Fitzgerald, Thomas, xix, 5, 45–47, 57, 69, 73, 80–89, 104, 115, 137; and Athletic bbc leadership, 60–66; City Item, 45, 47, 60, 63–65, 82–89, 104; criticism of nabbp, 102, 104; and integration, 137, 151, 153, 198 Forest City Base Ball Club (Illinois), 93, 94 Forney, John W., 65 Fourteenth Amendment, ix, 26, 33, 198. See also Constitutional amendments Freedmen’s Bureau, ix, xi, xvii, 12, 13, 22, 35, 36, 63, 97, 107, 128, 197 Gorman, Arthur, xix, 3, 17, 92–95, 176, 194; nabbp presidency of, 18–23, 66, 100–102, 105, 113, 133; political career of, 14, 16, 105, 118 Grant, Ulysses S., 5, 107, 152 Hayhurst, Elias Hicks, xix, 46, 47, 58, 60, 76–84, 104, 114, 194 Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond), 3, 28, 117, 128, 161 Howard University 147, 173, 197 Jefferson Base Ball Club (Washington dc), xix, 14, 73, 91, 93 Johnson, Andrew, xix, 5, 6, 16–18, 20, 33, 46, 95, 118; impeachment of, 8, 65, 101 Keystone Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 42, 43, 53, 63; and integration, 83–89 Knights of Pythias, 49, 52, 127n29 Ku Klux Klan, 127; and baseball club, 127, 128 L’Enfant, Pierre: plan of, 14 Liberty Hall Association, 55, 138, 222n3 Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 6, 7...

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