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From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 4, 1866 Base-ball – This admirable and healthy sport will be re-inaugurated by the Louisville...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 29, 1867 Louisville Theater – Jolly Old Jack Falstaff will make his debut at this...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, September 12, 1866 OUR PRESIDENT His Arrival and Reception The Welcome of the Falls City to her...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 28, 1866 New Base-Ball Club. – Base-ball seems to be all the rage. Another club was formed...

From the Daily Ohio Statesman, January 29, 1862 [A report from the field] . . . The Thirteenth, one of the first regiments that organized...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 24, 1866 To Base-ball Players. Physicians in Cincinnati give it as their opinion that at the...

From the Cleveland Leader, December 30th, 1861 OUR FORCES IN KENTUCKY – We enjoyed an interview with Lieut. Northrop, of Captain...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, February 17, 1866 The skating festival is still kept up hereabouts. Large parties of young ladies...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, March 23, 1884 The programme of the Cincinnati Dramatic Festival has been decided as follows:...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, December 9, 1896 Pushing His Claims for the Position of Pension Agent. Among the visitors to the...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 6, 1866 Base-Ball – An interesting game of base-ball was played on Saturday evening on the...

Noah Cartwright was born March 14, 1833 in Highland County, Ohio. He enrolled at South Salem Academy but was elected associate professor...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 4, 1866 Base-ball – This admirable and healthy sport will be re-inaugurated by the Louisville...

Joseph Rufus Snider was born near Mt. Eden in Shelby County on June 10, 1831. When the war broke out, recruited most of Company B, the...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 3, 1865 Base-ball – There will be a match game this afternoon between the Olympic Base-ball...

[I hesitated before reprinting this article, since I don’t want to start a discussion of the “authorship debate” on this blog. To be...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, May 30, 1862 The Fifteenth Kentucky Regiment – The Rev. J. J. Talbott, Chaplain of the Fifteenth...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 14, 1865 The Louisville Base-ball Club has been organized with the following officers: Alex....

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 8, 1862 The Loyal People of Shelbyville, Tenn. – We were favored yesterday with the perusal of...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, July 21, 1860 [Judging from this report in the Daily Courier, there were already baseball fans in...