Oldest Known Photo of a Baseball Game

Someone put up a link to this photo on a Yankee blog a while back, and I thought some of you might enjoy it.

The photographer was taking a picture of Company K, of the 48th Regiment of the New York Volunteers, at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, in Savannah Harbor in 1862.  Behind Company K are a group of soldiers playing baseball.  Supposedly, this is the oldest known photo of a baseball game.

Comments

[Andrew C]

Fascinating!

[Matt Holst]

Thanks for sharing this.

[John Doe]

STUPID PHOTO THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH JESUS BUT WITH YOUR STUPID SPORT-PHILOSOPHY!!!

[Kim Riddlebarger]

Mr. Doe:

So I take it then that you are not a baseball fan?

[Richard]

Is that George Steinbrenner I see in the middle?

["lee n. field"]

Two full human lifetimes ago. Interesting.

[J.S. Doe]

PROVIDE WITH THE PAGAN ROMAN CATHOLIC FALSE DOGMA ABOUT THE "RAPTURE" A.D. 1812, AND TAKE OFF THIS PHONY PICTURE!!!

[armk]

Lol. Pastor R., if these comments cannot be prescreened for "eccentrics," commenters might have to be required to register with their real, verified names & affiliations?

[Phil]

That's cool! If there is anything humans have made that I'd want in the new heavens and new earth, tt's baseball.

[J.A. Doe]

WHATS NEXT? THE FIRST MICKEY MOUSE DRAWING?? ALL SPORTS ARE IDOLATRY!! SHAPE UP OR LET THE LORD ALMIGHTY JESUS CHRIST DESTROY THIS WEIRD PHOTO AND ITS WORSHIPPERS!!

[Richard]

Someone should let "Doe" know what a fine and ethical baseball player AROD is! It would turn his life around!

[Kim Riddlebarger]

Mr. Wolfe:

OK, Mr. Doe is obviously a mean-spirited kook. You know, a blog troll who is too much of a coward to use his own name.

But the A-Rod, Steinbrenner thing is really played-out. George is dead, and I'm no fan of A-Rod.

Dude, time for something new . . .

[Michael]

So was GEN Abner Doubleday at Fort Pulaski at the same time? :)

Also, since this is a New York Regiment, I wonder if baseball began as a northeast sport and spread out or if everyone just converted from cricket.

Thanks for highlighting the photo (regardless of Mr. Doe's continual shouting otherwise; he must come from the same hermeneutical school as a west coast pastor I have heard of).

[Will]

That's a great photograph- so well-preserved over time. Thanks, Pastor.
(I have to wonder what "Doe" does for fun)

[Stevie Doe]

Sorry about my mean brother's comments. :) Hey Phil! Did you go to Westminster west?

[Phil]

No Stevie, I didn't go to Westminster West (or philly). I'm on the right coast. Hour or so north of NYC. I'd like to go to WMW but not sure it's Gods plans.

[Baseball Hats]

1862.....hmm that was that's around 150 years ago. Cool! There are lots of memories we can keep with the help of technology specially nowadays...Later in the future....I just under my baseball hat wonder what could be the next