Lawrence Base Ball Club.

The Lawrence Base Ball Club was organized in November 1858 and was the first baseball organization associated with the Harvard. Its first members were largely students of the Lawrence Scientific School, and early members included Frederic Ward Putnam (Harvard College Class of 1862) and Jose Eulogio Delgado, (Harvard College Class of 1858).

From the description of Records of the Lawrence Base Ball Club, 1858-1859, and 1910-1917. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 228512761

The Lawrence Base Ball Club was organized in November 1858 and was the first baseball organization associated with Harvard University . The club played the "New York" style of the game and was certainly among the first to do so in Massachusetts before the Civil War.

The club played matches against a club formed by men in the Harvard Law School . Practice was held where the University Museum now stands, while matches were played on Cambridge Common near the Washington Elm. It is unclear when the club disbanded, but it is likely to have broken up during the Civil War.

Its first members were largely, although not exclusively, students of the Lawrence Scientific School, which was Harvard's first graduate school dedicated solely to science and engineering . Early members included Frederic Ward Putnam, a professor and Harvard College alumnus from the Class of 1862, and José Eulogio Delgado, a Harvard College alumnus from Class of 1858 and later Minister of Finance for Peru.

From the guide to the Records of the Lawrence Base Ball Club, 1858-1859 and 1910-1917, (Harvard University Archives)