Early Knoxville Holston BBC Games

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Overview

Early base ball games (1867-68) involving the Holston Base Ball Club of Knoxville, Tennessee.

1867

Match Date Reported Club Club Notes
May 4, 1867 May 8, 1867 - Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (article link) Holstons L Knoxville W
May 11, 1867 May 15, 1867 - Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (article link) Holstons W Knoxville L
May 20, 1867 - Memphis Daily Post (article link) Holstons 45 Mountain City (Chattanooga) 86
July 4, 1867 July 6, 1867 - Knoxville Daily Free Press (article link) Holstons 65 Emmett 12 Game closed after 5 innings
Sep. 3, 1867 Sep. 5, 1867 - Knoxville Daily Free Press (article link) Holstons 50 Mountain City (Chattanooga) 79 1st game of championship of the state series.
Sep. 13/14, 1867 Sep. 18, 1867 - Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (article link) Holstons 52 Mountain City (Chattanooga) 31 2nd game of championship of the state series.
Sep. 21, 1867 Sep. 25, 1867 - Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (article link) Holstons W Mountain City (Chattanooga) L 3rd game of championship of the state series. Game played in Athens.
Nov. 6, 1867 Nov. 7, 1867 - Knoxville Daily Herald - (article link) Holstons 90 Knoxville 25 2nd day of Knoxville Base Ball Tournament
Nov. 28, 1867 Nov. 30, 1867 - Knoxville Daily Herald (article link) Holstons 18 Gate City (Atlanta) 21 Also reported on Dec. 4, 1867 in Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (article link)
Dec. 7, 1867 Dec 8, 1867 - Knoxville Daily Herald (article link) Holstons (2nd 9) 34 Knoxville 14 "Only five innings were played."

1868

Match Date Reported Club Club Notes
Aug. 25, 1868 Aug. 26, 1868 - Daily Press and Herald (article link) Holstons 14 Picked Field (Picked Nine) 15 Game stopped on account of rain at end of 3rd inning.
Aug. 29, 1868 Aug. 30, 1868 - Daily Press and Herald (article link) Holstons 44 Picked Nine (Picked Field) 10 Seven innings played.
Sept. 3, 1868 Sep. 4, 1868 - Daily Press and Herald (article link) Holstons 26 Cumberland (Jr. Club) 32 also reported on Sep. 10, 1868 in Knoxville Press and Messenger (article link)
Sep. 12, 1868 Sep. 13, 1868 The Tennessean (article link) Holstons 10 Nashville 34 1st game for Championship of the State.
Sep. 24, 1868 Sep. 25, 1868 - Daily Press and Herald (article link) Holstons 30 Nashville 29 2nd game for Championship of the State. Also reported on Oct. 1, 1868 in Knoxville Press and Messenger (article link)
Oct. 9, 1868 Oct. 11, 1868 - Daily Press and Herald (article link) Holstons 18 Nashville 21 3rd game for Championship of the State.

References / Resources

  • various newspapers at Newspapers.com
  • Christopher Ryland's early base ball blog Three Hands Dead
  • Holston Club of Knoxville at Protoball.org
  • Allen, Ronald R. Same Old Smokies: A brief history of baseball in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1865-1954, self published, 2008

Credit

This page was researched by Dr. William Hardy and Mark D. Aubrey. Formatted and presented by Mark D. Aubrey.

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