Amateur Baseball
The College Game
Amherest Celebrated victory over
Williams in the first collegiate baseball game
with this headline in 1859, part of the Library of Congress,
Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe , DIGITAL ID rbpe 00000700 urn:hdl:loc.rbc/rbpe.00000700
You can read an account of the first collegiate baseball game (both facsimile) and full text, at the Library of Congress, "American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera." exhibit.
To examine the growth of the college game through 2002 checkout the the various categories of college sites offered by John Skilton's baseball links.
This page was last updated
January 15, 2004