{"id":2546,"date":"2021-10-23T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/?p=2546"},"modified":"2021-10-23T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T10:38:00","slug":"51-take-your-ancestors-out-to-the-ball-game-black-baseball-since-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/51-take-your-ancestors-out-to-the-ball-game-black-baseball-since-1858\/","title":{"rendered":"#51 Take your ancestors out to the ball game: Black baseball since 1858"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s October and that means baseball is in full swing. Do you know how many of your ancestors were a part of Black Baseball stardom? Since 1858, the game of baseball has featured sluggers, great pitchers, fielders and speedsters who have defied the odds and have mostly gone unnoticed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s dust off the ancestral home plates and locate your family members who were the stars on playing fields long forgotten or never researched.  <a href=\"http:\/\/1855 The first recorded baseball game between two black teams occurred on October 24, 1855. According to the Newark Daily Mercury, the St. John\u2019s team was beating the Union Clubs  by a score of 10-2 at the end of two innings when the game was rained out. 1858 The National Association of Baseball Players is formed. The organization included both   black and white players. 1860 The Colored Union Club of New York was defeated by a team from Weeksville (NY) at  Elysian Fields (Hoboken, NJ) by a score of 11-0 on September 28, 1860.\">Start with the year 1858. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/annwead.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/pexels-photo-1661950.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/annwead.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/pexels-photo-1661950.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2551\" class=\"wp-image-2551\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Photo by Steshka Willems on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/white-baseball-ball-on-brown-leather-baseball-mitt-1661950\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pexels.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s October and that means baseball is in full swing. Do you know how many of your ancestors were a part of Black Baseball stardom? Since 1858, the game of baseball has featured sluggers, great pitchers, fielders and speedsters who have defied the odds and have mostly gone unnoticed. Let&#8217;s dust off the ancestral home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[266,349],"class_list":["post-2546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancestral-historal","tag-266","tag-black-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodgenesgenealogy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}