1862 Pastime, Baltimore (Pastimes)

This rendering is based on written documentation for uniform style and color. No visual documentation is known and an artist’s conceptualization is used to create the rendering.

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Visual documentation on this uniform:
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Written documentation on this uniform:
1862: “The new Pastime uniform entailed a blue cloth cap with a leather visor, a white flannel shirt with a large “P” in blue on the front and blue cloth pants.” From William Ridgely Griffith, The Early History of Amateur Base Ball in the State of Maryland: 1858-1871 (1897). Research from Brian McKenna.

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).