1868 Championship of the State

The Knoxville Holstons were the state champions of 1867. They were challenged to play a match for the championship of the State by the Phoenix BBC of Nashville.

Republican Banner (Nashville, Tenn.) - August 25, 1868

A few weeks later they headed west.

The Athens Post (Athens, Tenn.) - September 18, 1868

There is a wonderful four column write up in the Republican Banner of Nashville.  Each play described in detail for every inning.  Too large to reproduce here and probably would violate some spirit of copyright law issues.  I present just the box score.

Republican Banner (Nashville, Tenn.) - September 13, 1868

The Nashville team would come to Knoxville to face the Holstons again later that same month.

The Hun-ki-do-ris

While doing a bit of research on the Reckless Base Ball Club of Maryville, I came across this article from 1868. It talks about the Hun-ki-do-ri club of Maryville (or perhaps Louisville) meeting the "East T___ University Club" of Knoxville and puts forth a protest that the University Club was using ringers.

I say "perhaps Louisville" for that is what the article's author uses as a byline.

Maryville Republcan - June 27, 1868

image from Chronicling America