1845 to 1868 in baseball

Early years in baseball
d1 = 1840s
d2 = 1850s
d3 = 1860s
sport = baseball

"Part of the History of baseball series."

Champions

*National Association of Base Ball Players:
**1857: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1858: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1859: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1860: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1861: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1862: Eckford of Brooklyn
**1863: Eckford of Brooklyn
**1864: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1865: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1866: Atlantic of Brooklyn
**1867: Union of Morrisania
**1868: Mutual of New York

Events

*September 28, 1860 - The first baseball game between two named black teams was held at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Weeksville of New York beat the Colored Union Club 11–0.

Births

:For births of baseball figures prior to 1845, see: Pre-1850s in sports

1840s

*1845
**January 31 - Bob Ferguson
**April 19 - Nat Hicks
**May 25 - Lip Pike
**Arthur Soden
*1846
**June 1 - Andy Leonard
**September 24 - Charlie Pabor
*1847
**January 28 - George Wright
**July 17 - Hugh Daily
**December 7 - Deacon White
*1848
**October 18 - Candy Cummings
*1849
**May 27 - Jimmy Hallinan
**June 6 - Jim Devlin
**July 27 - Davy Force

1850s

*1850
**April 8 - Johnny Peters
**April 30 - Charley Jones
**May 8 - Ross Barnes
**August 30 - Cal McVey
**September 1 - Jim O'Rourke
**September 2 - Albert Goodwill Spalding
**September 17 - Ezra Sutton
*1851
**June 13 - Jim Mutrie
**July 13 - Tom York
**July 17 - John Clapp
**October - Orator Shaffer
**November 7 - Chris von der Ahe
**November 21 - Bobby Mathews
**Dick Higham
*1852
**March 1 - Paul Hines
**April 11 - Cap Anson
**April - Jack Burdock
**June 4 - Tim Murnane
**July 13 - George Bradley
**December 22 - Bill Boyd
*1853
**January 26 - Billy Barnie
**June 16 - Lon Knight
**October 2 - Mike Dorgan
**December 20 - Jack Manning
*1854
**March 16 - Blondie Purcell
**October 6 - Pop Snyder
**October 11 - Will White
**November 21 - Charlie Bennett
**December 11 - Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn
*1855
**February 14 - Joe Gerhardt
**February 19 - John Morrill
**March 29 - Bill Harbridge
**April 21 - Hardy Richardson
**June 29 - John Gaffney
**August 3 - Silver Flint
**August 16 - Hick Carpenter
*1856
**April 2 - Tommy Bond
**April 3 - Guy Hecker
**May 15 - Fred Goldsmith
**August 14 - Alex McKinnon
**September 7 - Dave Foutz
**October 12 - Pop Smith
**November 3 - Jim McCormick
**December 8 - Jack Rowe
**December 16 - Pete Hotaling
**December 20 - Harry Stovey
**December 25 - Pud Galvin
*1857
**January 1 - Tim Keefe
**March 30 - Tom Burns
**April - Bill Phillips
**May 3 - George Gore
**May 5 - Lee Richmond
**June 12 - Joe Hornung
**July 1 - Roger Connor
**August 18 - Sam Wise
**August 22 - Ned Hanlon
**September 9 - Abner Dalrymple
**October 24 - Ned Williamson
**November 10 - Jim Whitney
**December 31 - King Kelly
*1858
**February 14 - Arthur Irwin
**March 3 - Harry Wheeler
**April 11 - Pop Corkhill
**May - Henry Myers
**May 8 - Dan Brouthers
**May 24 - Sam Barkley
**May 25 - Tip O'Neill
**June 26 - Denny Sullivan
**October 5 - Long John Reilly
**October 24 - Bill Kuehne
**November 9 - George Wood
*1859
**January 11 - George Pinkney
**January 20 - Tony Mullane
**January 27 - Bob Emslie
**March 16 - Jerry Denny
**May 3 - August "Garry" Herrmann
**May 21 - Fred Dunlap
**July 4 - Mickey Welch
**July 22 - Jack Glasscock
**August 10 - Larry Corcoran
**August 15 - Charles Comiskey
**September 29 - Dave Orr
**October 17 - Buck Ewing
**October 18 - Cliff Carroll
**October 26 - Frank Selee
**October 29 - Charles Ebbets
**November 1 - Bid McPhee

1860s

*1860
**January 12 - Henry Larkin
**January 29 - John Coleman
**February 15 - Cub Stricker
**March 3 - John Montgomery Ward
**March 5 - Sam Thompson
**March 15 - Arlie Latham
**March 17 - Fred Pfeffer
**September 21 - Tom Brown
**November 23 - Chief Zimmer
**December 5 - Billy Shindle
*1861
**June 14 - Charlie Buffinton
**June 17 - Pete Browning
**July 1 - John Clarkson
**October 14 - Paul Radford
**December 26 - George Tebeau
*1862
**January 8 - Jim Donahue
**January 12 - John Crowley
**February 11 - Curt Welch
**May 12 - Jimmy Wolf
**May 23 - Dummy Hoy
**July 8 - Hank O'Day
**September 29 - Ed Morris
**November 19 - Billy Sunday
**December 22 - Connie Mack
**Patrick T. Powers
**Jack Sheridan
*1863
**January 25 - Danny Richardson
**February 11 - Jimmy Ryan
**April 17 - Charlie Ferguson
**April 21 - Germany Smith
**May 1 - Frank Foreman
**June 7 - Bones Ely
**June 29 - Wilbert Robinson
**July 24 - Tommy McCarthy
**October 17 - Count Campau
**October 18 - Walt Wilmot
**October 28 - Tommy Tucker
**November 18 - Deacon McGuire
**December 26 - Dick Burns
*1864
**January 5 - Bob Caruthers
**January 5 - Ban Johnson
**March 1 - Farmer Vaughn
**June 6 - Ed McKean
**July 10 - Jimmy McAleer
**July 24 - Jack Clements
**August 7 - Adonis Terry
**August 15 - Doggie Miller
**September 6 - Oyster Burns
**December 5 - Patsy Tebeau
**December 25 - Joe Quinn
*1865
**February 23 - Barney Dreyfuss
**March 16 - Patsy Donovan
**March 20 - Mike Griffin
**June 24 - Billy Nash
**June 30 - Tim Hurst
**July 9 - Jimmy Cooney
**July 10 - Bobby Lowe
**August 1 - Frank Grant
**September 21 - Bill Joyce
**September 28 - Lou Bierbauer
*1866
**February 7 - Tom Daly
**February 16 - Billy Hamilton
**March 12 - Denny Lyons
**March 22 - Jack Boyle
**March 30 - George Van Haltren
**April 13 - Herman Long
**May 12 - Lave Cross
**August 21 - Cannonball Titcomb
**August 31 - Duke Farrell
**September 29 - Gus Weyhing
**October 6 - Eddie Burke
**October 26 - Kid Gleason
**November 20 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis
**November 26 - Hugh Duffy
*1867
**January 21 - Mike Tiernan
**February 8 - Bug Holliday
**February 21 - Jouett Meekin
**March 29 - Cy Young
**March 31 - Bill Hallman
**August 4 - Jake Beckley
**August 5 - Jacob Ruppert
**August 14 - Cupid Childs
**September 19 - Sadie McMahon
**October 7 - Brickyard Kennedy
**October 30 - Ed Delahanty
**November 5 - Elton "Icebox" Chamberlain
*1868
**January 11 - Silver King
**March 23 - Elmer Smith
**March 25 - Frank Dwyer
**March 31 - Jack Stivetts
**May 10 - Ed Barrow
**June 12 - Sol White
**September 11 - Steve Brodie
**October 13 - Charles Somers
**October 25 - Dan Burke
**November 9 - Bill Phillips
**December 4 - Jesse Burkett

Deaths

1860s

*1862
**October 18 - Jim Creighton

References

*Orem, Preston D. (1961). "Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts". Altadena, CA: Self-published. ISBN-Unknown