Baseball’s Box Score Eighteen Hundred Series

Baseball – 1800s

The 1800s: We have been baseball fans for over 60 years, and like many of you we have played, watched, read, researched, listened, and discussed … a mind-boggling amount of baseball. So, we think we can say without reservation that there is no better view of the beginning of baseball history than these thirty-six Box Score Cards. These box score game cards represent the foundation of baseball history. They take you on a journey from it's primitive beginning (1845) on a lazy fall day when someone, no one knows who, decided to keep the box score of a game to the end of the 19th Century when baseball was a way of life for most Americans.

Take a second and think about that era in American history. Up until the 1830s there were no leisure activities in America if you exclude barn raising, but by the 1850s baseball had swept the country from the industrial cities in the east to the expansion of the west starting with the Ohio valley. Even after a devastating civil war and an industrial revolution that had separated the masses, baseball was the constant uniting element in the America’s character. By the end of the 19th Century, baseball had no equal in the fiber of America’s life. This 1800 series is a very special. Enjoy viewing the cards and related stories.