Baseball
- Early history
- Mount Allison
plays ball - Intercollegiate competition
- Declining interest
Mount Allison Plays Ball
From these origins, baseball at Mount Allison emerged. The school, in the 1860s, was an elite complex of three institutions in a working-class town. Sackville was a major ship building centre between 1840 and 1880, and two iron and stove foundries were also established during this period and became major employers.
The first baseball game recorded at Mount Allison occurred in April 1878, between the Academy and its affiliated Commercial College. A second game between the two sides was also recorded in The Argosy in May 1881. The University had yet to form a baseball team by this point.
By 1884, baseball and cricket were played at both the Academy and University, and there was peer pressure among the male students to join both clubs. William Seaman, a student at the University, remarked on this when he wrote to his father on 17 September 1884:
"A fellow has to go with the majority of the boys in anything they set up like Cricket, Baseball, etc. if he wants to get along well."
Mount Allison University baseball team, ca. 1898-99
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