History Pub - The Origins of Baseball
Schedule
Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
McMenamins Grand Lodge | Forest Grove, OR
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McMenamins and Friends of Forest Grove present History Pub
The Origins of Baseball
Presented by John Bawden
McMenamins Grand Lodge Theater
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
7pm/doors 6pm
$5
All ages welcome
Baseball in 1865 was recognizable to modern eyes and on its way to becoming the national game. And yet, just thirty years before, North Americans played a variety of bat and ball games, including cricket, townball, batball, shinny, and wicket. Few Americans living at that time could have imagined their own version of ball disappearing. So, what happened? When did the pastime become the baseball game we know today? Historian John Bawden explores how baseball developed and how the American Civil War spread one variety of baseball across the United States. And heβll talk about one of the first amateur baseball clubs in the Pacific Northwest, the Pioneer Base Ball Club of Portland in 1866.
John R. Bawden is a historian at Oregon State University. Most of his academic writing is about Chilean history during the Cold War. He is the author of two books, πΏππ‘ππ π΄πππππππ ππππππππ : π΄ππππ πΉπππππ ππ π‘βπ π πππππβπ π»ππ π‘πππ¦ and πβπ πππππβππ‘ πΊππππππ‘πππ: πβπ πΆβπππππ πππππ‘πππ¦ ππ π‘βπ ππ€πππ‘πππ‘β πΆπππ‘π’ππ¦. When not teaching, John enjoys researching baseball history topics for his YouTube channel, the Baseball Professor.
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