South Coast Vintage Base Ball

Discovering baseball history on the southcoast of Massachusetts

Category Archives: Antebellum

New Bedford High School Baseball, 150 Years Ago

1 Comment Posted by on April 1, 2008

Not only is this year the 150th anniversary of the first known baseball team in New Bedford (predating the Wamsutta Club’s claim by 8 years), it is also an anniversary year for the New Bedford high school team. In 1858 the New Bedford High School fielded a team making them the first high school or secondary school [...]

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Early Days of Baseball in New Bedford, ca. 1858

4 Comments Posted by on September 17, 2007

            Baseball in New Bedford seems to have a longer past than once believed. According to a May 2006 Standard Times article, the Wamsutta Base Ball Club was the first baseball club in the city in 1866. The source of that information may have come from the obituary of Charles [...]

1858, 19th Century, Antebellum, base ball, baseball, Charles W. Clifford, Ironsides Base Ball Club, Massachusetts Game, New Bedford, Massachusetts, Victorian Era, Wamsutta Base Ball Club, Wamsutta Club

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