1865 Star, Brooklyn

This rendering is based on partial or inconclusive visual documentation for uniform style only. Color information is unknown and the uniform is rendered in values of gray. Other important details may also be undocumented or difficult to determine and an artist’s conceptualization is used to complete the rendering.

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Year: unconfirmed    Team: documented

Visual documentation on this uniform:

Dated Nov 4, 1865. Detail of R Manly (59, 60, 62, 63, 65-70) at left, full engraving at right. Printed in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. It is likely some players were drawn from photographs taken in the early 1860s or late 1850s and therefore uniforms depicted may not reflect the year 1865. Years player with team from Marshall D. Wright, The National Association Of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870 (2000).

Written documentation on this uniform:
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Team genealogy: Star 1856?-1872
Star was formed in Brooklyn, NY, about 1856 as a junior club. They joined the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) as an adult club in 1860. The NABBP was baseball’s first organization, operating 1857-1870. Star chose to remain amateur with the advent of open professionalism in 1869 and played their last competitive games in 1872. Information from Craig B Waff, William J Ryczek, Peter Morris and others, Base Ball Founders (2013).