Cricket and Base Ball in Kansas, 1860–1869, Revised

Authors

Mark E. Eberle, Fort Hays State UniversityFollow

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DOI

10.58809/ETYX2371

Date

2025

Abstract

During the 1860s, cricket clubs were organized before the first baseball clubs in Kansas. Following the US Civil War, baseball grew in popularity, and soldiers and immigrants from the Northeast and Midwest brought the sport with them to the state. This essay describes the first two cricket clubs in Kansas—the Leavenworth Occidental Cricket Club and the Wyandotte City Cricket Club—and the transition to baseball. This essay was originally published in 2019 and has undergone revisions and corrections for its release in 2025 as part of the five-volume anthology Peeking through the Knothole. The open-access, digital version of this essay is available through the “Download” button on this webpage. The print-on-demand version is available through the “Buy this Book” button for volume five of the anthology (Essays on Baseball from Various Viewpoints, 1856–1940).

Keywords

cricket, Occidental Cricket Club, Wyandotte City Cricket Club, Frontier Base Ball Club, Wyandotte Base Ball Club, Kansas City baseball, Leavenworth baseball.

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Originally Published 2019

Revised Edition 2025

Recommended Citation

Eberle, Mark E., "Cricket and Base Ball in Kansas, 1860–1869, Revised" (2025). Monographs. 13.
DOI: 10.58809/ETYX2371
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/all_monographs/13