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Alert Base Ball Club (Manchester VA), 34, 35
Alert Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xix, 9, 10, 13, 14, 53–58, 70–72, 96–100, 106–12, 175, 181, 184
amateurism; and baseball, xiv, 151, 171–74; and the National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players, 177, 178, 188, 189, 230n77; and race, 181
Ashby Base Ball Club (Richmond), 28, 31, 40, 41, 122
Atlanta, 22, 24, 30–33, 114, 123, 124, 129, 163, 172
Atlantic Base Ball Club (Brooklyn), xi, 28, 39, 42, 45, 60, 129, 156
Athletic Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), 5, 6, 39, 42–47, 53, 59, 137, 149, 151–54, 161; baseball grounds, xi, 53, 57, 70, 73, 74, 139, 140, 149; and integrated play, 84–87; leadership in, 60–66, 77, 80–83, 114
Babcock, Alexander, xviii, 22, 27, 32, 41, 117, 119, 157, 158, 160; and military service, 28–30, 129, 156; and politics, 161, 162, 195
Bachelor Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), 42, 77
Baltimore, 11, 16, 33, 42, 49, 120, 121, 128, 157, 179; and integrated baseball, 110
Banneker Institute, xviii, 43, 49, 52, 55, 147
Boston, xi, 11, 44, 48, 141, 151, 164, 167
Bowen, Sayles J., 12
Brooklyn, xi, 11, 28, 42, 45, 60, 156, 163, 174, 176, 177
Burr, Raymond, xviii, 54, 69, 70, 75–80, 104, 194, 195
Capital Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xix, 91, 184
Catto, Octavius, xviii, xix, 42, 43, 47, 53, 55, 81–83, 87, 88, 104, 193, 198; and 1871 election, 142–48, 154–55; teaching of, 137–39; and youth, 49–52
Chadwick, Henry, viii, xiii, xiv, 19, 30, 37, 38, 66, 75, 91, 94, 114, 125, 153, 172
Charleston, 22, 24, 30, 50, 123, 124, 126; baseball and violence in, 129–33, 163
Chicago, 11, 48, 93, 100, 141, 164, 178; and integrated baseball, 141, 173, 182, 195; Nationals tour to, 94, 95, 151
Civil Rights Act of 1866, ix, 26
Civil War: and baseball, vii, 4, 5, 11–14, 28, 42, 45, 51, 162; black ballplayers service in, 13–14; damage caused to baseball cities by, xvi, 22–25. See also The Lost Cause
Cohen, Edward, xix, 27, 32, 35
Confederacy, ix, xvi, xviii, 4, 21, 23, 27–31, 38, 118, 122, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 156, 157, 167, 169–70, 197
Confederate Base Ball Clubs, 122, 126, 167, 170, 195
Confederates. See Confederacy
Constitutional amendments, ix, 26, 33, 64, 142, 143, 198
cricket, vii, 3–6, 15, 45, 50, 60, 132
Democrats, 3, 6, 61, 63, 65, 82, 105, 130, 138, 142
Douglass, Charles, xi, xix, 4, 9, 10–12, 14, 96–99, 182; government employment of, 107, 108, 172, 183; and integration, 108–11; youth of, 13
Douglass, Frederick, xi, xix, 47, 99, 145, 147, 158, 173, 188
Excelsior Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 48–50, 58, 59, 74, 163
Fifteenth Amendment, ix, 26, 64, 142, 143, 198. See also Constitutional amendments
Fisler, Weston, 58, 70, 85, 152
Fitzgerald, Thomas, xix, 5, 45–47, 57, 69, 73, 80–89, 104, 115, 137; and Athletic BBC leadership, 60–66; City Item, 45, 47, 60, 63–65, 82–89, 104; criticism of NABBP, 102, 104; and integration, 137, 151, 153, 198
Forest City Base Ball Club (Illinois), 93, 94
Forney, John W., 65
Fourteenth Amendment, ix, 26, 33, 198. See also Constitutional amendments
Freedmen’s Bureau, ix, xi, xvii, 12, 13, 22, 35, 36, 63, 97, 107, 128, 197
Gorman, Arthur, xix, 3, 17, 92–95, 176, 194; NABBP presidency of, 18–23, 66, 100–102, 105, 113, 133; political career of, 14, 16, 105, 118
Grant, Ulysses S., 5, 107, 152
Hayhurst, Elias Hicks, xix, 46, 47, 58, 60, 76–84, 104, 114, 194
Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond), 3, 28, 117, 128, 161
Howard University 147, 173, 197
Jefferson Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xix, 14, 73, 91, 93
Johnson, Andrew, xix, 5, 6, 16–18, 20, 33, 46, 95, 118; impeachment of, 8, 65, 101
Keystone Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 42, 43, 53, 63; and integration, 83–89
Knights of Pythias, 49, 52, 127n29
Ku Klux Klan, 127; and baseball club, 127, 128
L’Enfant, Pierre: plan of, 14
Liberty Hall Association, 55, 138, 222n3
Lincoln, Abraham, 4, 6, 7, 16, 45, 46, 61, 123
Louisville, 22, 112, 154, 160; Nationals visit to, 19, 93, 94
The Lost Cause: and baseball, 17, 23, 94, 117, 131, 156, 167, 197; and The Lost Cause, 27
L’Overture Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 48, 49
Metropolitan Base Ball Club (Washington DC), 181, 182
Mutual Base Ball Club (Washington DC), 70–72, 96–99, 106, 108, 110, 111, 139, 140, 149, 175, 181–84, 187–89, 192
National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP), xviii, 23, 31, 32, 36, 37, 60, 62, 81, 84, 92–95, 105, 106, 109, 112, 116, 157, 170, 174–76; convention, xii, xiv, 17–21, 75, 77, 80, 100–104, 113, 114, 133, 174, 178, 195
National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), 140, 150–53, 167, 170, 171, 177–80
National Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xii, xix, 5–8, 14, 18, 91, 106, 108; establishment of, 16; and professionalism, 179–82; 1867 tour of, 19, 92–96
National League, vii, xix, 3, 108, 139, 152–54, 171, 179, 188, 190–93, 196
Negro Leagues, 53, 192, 194, 196, 197
New Orleans, 22, 33, 49, 112, 123–26, 161, 162, 195
New York City, xi, xii, xiii, xv, 4, 17, 28, 47, 58, 91, 92, 151, 183, 191
New York State Base Ball Association, 173, 174, 176–78, 195
Old Dominion Base Ball Club (Richmond), xix, 35, 37, 38, 116, 161, 162, 167
Olympic Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 42, 53, 57, 66, 139; and integration, 83, 85, 87–90, 129
Olympic Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xix, 6, 8, 91, 93, 178–82; and integration, 106, 108–12
Pacific Base Ball Club (Richmond), xix, 166
Pastime Base Ball Club (Richmond), xii, xix, 30, 31, 35, 41, 115, 117–19, 121, 128, 156–59
Pennsylvania Association of Base Ball Players, 57, 103, 104, 114, 174, 194; 1867 convention of, 69–70, 75–81
Philadelphia Base Ball Club, 152, 153
Pollard, Edward, 27
Potomac Base Ball Club (Washington DC), xix, 14, 19
Pythian Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), xviii, 14, 42, 53, 56–59, 71–75, 109, 113, 137–40, 194; decline of, 147–49; establishment of, 48–50; and integrated play, 82–90; leadership in, 54, 55; and the Pennsylvania Association of Base Ball Players, 69–70, 75–82, 96–104
Quaker City Base Ball Club (Philadelphia), 42, 50
Reach, Al, 43, 44, 46, 85, 152
Reconciliation(ism), viii, ix, 4, 16, 20, 37, 94, 96, 102, 105, 115, 129, 132, 133, 167, 168, 172, 176, 194, 195
Republicans, 26, 45, 46, 52, 82, 83, 105, 142, 143, 146
Reindeer Base Ball Club (Richmond), xiv, 169
Rickey, Branch, 66, 81, 196, 198
Robert E. Lee Base Ball Clubs, 23, 31, 122, 126, 167, 195
Robinson, Jackie, viii, 104, 105, 153, 191, 197, 198
Savannah, 22, 24, 30, 112, 113, 124, 125, 163; and the Savannah Base Ball Club, 129–33, 163
Secesh Base Ball Club (Richmond), 23, 122, 170, 195
Seymour, Harold, 5, 102, 104, 204n6, 228n42
Southern Base Ball Club (Richmond), xix, 122, 126
Spalding, Albert, 94
Spotswood Base Ball Club (Richmond), xiv, 40, 41
St. Louis, 11, 33, 93, 94, 124, 154, 164
suffrage: extension to black Americans, 6, 7, 12, 27, 52, 62, 64, 114
Thirteenth Amendment, ix, 198. See also Constitutional amendments
Tomlinson, Alexander, 158, 165, 166
Union Base Ball Club (Richmond), xix, 21, 32, 35–41, 116–20, 170
United States Treasury Department, xi, 9, 12, 95, 107, 179, 183, 186
Walker, Moses Fleetwood, 190, 192, 193, 197
White Lot, x, 5, 14–17, 15, 93, 106, 107, 128, 184–88, 186
women: playing baseball, xiii; as fans, xiii, 28, 35, 94, 98, 164
Wright, George, 4, 95, 151, 203n4
Young, Nicholas, xix, 6, 110, 171, 178–81, 194; Civil War service of, 3, 5, 7; and cricket, 4; government career of, 12, 14, 108; and the National League, 188, 190