1867 Pastime, Baltimore (Pastimes)

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.

Rendering accuracy:

Year: unconfirmed    Team: documented

Visual documentation on this uniform:

Photo A

Dated about 1867. Photo and date from James H. Bready, Baseball in Baltimore: The First Hundred Years (1998). Per Bready, the nine players in the photo are unidentified, and may be the same from this list of eleven: Shannon, Sellman, Mitchell, McDonald, J Popplein, Gregg, Buck, McKim, Mallinckrodt and G Popplein.

Written documentation on this uniform:
None

Team genealogy: Pastime, Baltimore 1860-1870
Pastime was formed in Baltimore, Maryland, when two local clubs, Excelsior and Waverly, merged in late 1860. Pastime was a member of the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP), baseball’s first organization operating 1857-1870. The club chose to remain amateur with the advent of open professionalism in 1869 and played their last competitive games in 1870. –Information from Peter Morris and others, Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (2012).