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Falstaff Comes to Louisville
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 29, 1867 Louisville Theater – Jolly Old Jack Falstaff will make his debut at this...
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Andy Johnson Comes to Louisville (and the Baseball Clubs March)
From the Louisville Daily Courier, September 12, 1866 OUR PRESIDENT His Arrival and Reception The Welcome of the Falls City to her...
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Another New Ballclub in Louisville
From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 28, 1866 New Base-Ball Club. – Base-ball seems to be all the rage. Another club was formed...
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The Fifteenth Kentucky in the Columbus Paper
From the Daily Ohio Statesman, January 29, 1862 [A report from the field] . . . The Thirteenth, one of the first regiments that organized...
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Hang On, Playing Baseball Causes What?
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 24, 1866 To Base-ball Players. Physicians in Cincinnati give it as their opinion that at the...
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The Fifteenth Kentucky at Bacon Creek
From the Cleveland Leader, December 30th, 1861 OUR FORCES IN KENTUCKY – We enjoyed an interview with Lieut. Northrop, of Captain...
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The Louisville Base-ball and Skating Park Company
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, February 17, 1866 The skating festival is still kept up hereabouts. Large parties of young ladies...
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Shakespeare Festival in Cincinnati
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, March 23, 1884 The programme of the Cincinnati Dramatic Festival has been decided as follows:...
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Col. Noah Cartwright
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, December 9, 1896 Pushing His Claims for the Position of Pension Agent. Among the visitors to the...
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All Hit, No Pitch in Louisville
From the Louisville Daily Courier, August 6, 1866 Base-Ball – An interesting game of base-ball was played on Saturday evening on the...
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Lieutenant Colonel Noah Cartwright of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry (U.S.)
Noah Cartwright was born March 14, 1833 in Highland County, Ohio. He enrolled at South Salem Academy but was elected associate professor...
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Baseball in Louisville, 1866
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 4, 1866 Base-ball – This admirable and healthy sport will be re-inaugurated by the Louisville...
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Lieutenant Colonel Joseph R. Snider
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...
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Baseball game in Louisville, August 1865
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, August 3, 1865 Base-ball – There will be a match game this afternoon between the Olympic Base-ball...
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Who Wrote Shakespeare?
[I hesitated before reprinting this article, since I don’t want to start a discussion of the “authorship debate” on this blog. To be...
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The Reverend Talbott of the Fifteenth is in Louisville
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, May 30, 1862 The Fifteenth Kentucky Regiment – The Rev. J. J. Talbott, Chaplain of the Fifteenth...
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Louisville Has a New Baseball Team!
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 14, 1865 The Louisville Base-ball Club has been organized with the following officers: Alex....
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A Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Jouett
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, April 8, 1862 The Loyal People of Shelbyville, Tenn. – We were favored yesterday with the perusal of...
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The New York Excelsiors Win
From the Louisville Daily Courier, July 21, 1860 [Judging from this report in the Daily Courier, there were already baseball fans in...
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Captain Noah Cartwright Sends a Sabre Home
From the Louisville Courier-Journal, May 14, 1862 Bowling Green, Feb. 24, 1862 Mr. G. D. Prentice – Dear Sir: By the politeness of Thomas...
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