Brooklyn Excelsiors Baseball Team, 1860

Baseball history photo: Brooklyn Excelsiors 1860 (left to right): Thomas Reynolds, SS; James Whiting, 3B; Jim Creighton (holding ball), P; Henry D. Polhemus, 2B; Aleck T. Pearsall, 1B; Edwin Russell, LF; Joe Leggett, C; Asa Brainard, LF; and George Flanly, CF. When the Civil War began 91 members of the Excelsior Club volunteered, although none of the first nine. In the winter 1862 Aleck T. Pearsall, who was a physician, volunteered for the Confederates. He became a Brigade Surgeon in Richmond, Virginia and even attended to some Union prisoners and even members of the Excelsior Club. When this information reached Brooklyn, the Excelsior Club expelled him. Click photo to return to previous page.

Baseball history photo: Brooklyn Excelsiors 1860 (left to right): Thomas Reynolds, SS; James Whiting, 3B; Jim Creighton (holding ball), P; Henry D. Polhemus, 2B; Aleck T. Pearsall, 1B; Edwin Russell, LF; Joe Leggett, C; Asa Brainard, LF; and George Flanly, CF. When the Civil War began 91 members of the Excelsior Club volunteered, although none of the first nine. In the winter 1862 Aleck T. Pearsall, who was a physician, volunteered for the Confederates. He became a Brigade Surgeon in Richmond, Virginia and even attended to some Union prisoners and even members of the Excelsior Club. When this information reached Brooklyn, the Excelsior Club expelled him. Click photo to return to previous page.

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