1868 Lowell, Boston

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Dated 1868, detail view at right. Players in collage from top, reading left to right: W Bradbury (68-70), W Joslin (65-70), J Lovett (61-69), F Conant (68-70), Jewell (67-70), F Sumner (65-68), W Alline (65-70), M Rogers (67-70) and A Newton (67-70). Years with team from earlier team pictures, from Benjamin Dettmar, Peter Morris and others, Base Ball Founders (2013), and from Marshall Wright, The National Association Of Base Ball Players, 1857-1870 (2000). Wright does not include years before 1867 for this team. Photo courtesy of T Scott Brandon, SABR 19th-Century Pictorial Committee.

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Team genealogy:
 Lowell, Boston, 1861-1873
Lowell was formed in Boston, MA, in 1861 and was named after the club founder and player, John Lowell (1837-1915). The Lowell club disbanded in 1873. — Info from Benjamin Dettmar, Peter Morris and others, Base Ball Founders (2013).