Baseball Before 1865

The 1865 Brooklyn Atlantics champions of the New York game which had come to dominate amateur baseball by the end of the Civil War. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number LC-USZ62-94553 (b&w) This image is part of the excellent "Early Baseball Pictures, " presentation of the Library of Congress.

The Origins of Baseball

As early as 1860 baseball was inspiring music, check out the cover of the sheet music for J.H. Kalbfleisch's "The Live Oak Polka" one of the baseball songs in the Library of Congress American Treasures section.

Why Baseball Grew before the Civil War

Baseball History on the Web

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January 15, 2004

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