The Forest Citys were a short lived professional baseball team based in Cleveland in the early 1870s. The actual name of the team, as shown in standings, was Forest City , not "Cleveland". The name "Forest Citys" was used in the same generic style of the day in which the team from Chicago was called the "Chicagos". Modern writers often refer to the club as the "Cleveland Forest Citys", which does not reflect 1870s usage, but does distinguish the team from the Rockford, Illinois, professional team that was also called "Forest City", that being a long-standing nickname of both of those cities.
4-715: Forest Citys may refer to: Forest City, an American professional baseball team that played in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1870 to 1872, today generally referred to as the Cleveland Forest Citys Forest City, an American professional baseball team that played in Rockford, Illinois, in 1871, today generally referred to as the Rockford Forest Citys See also [ edit ] Forest City Topics referred to by
8-545: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Cleveland Forest Citys Professional baseball began in Cleveland in 1869, following the lead of the first openly professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings , on the other side of Ohio. The Forest City club was the first fully salaried Cleveland team, beginning in 1870 as an independent. The club played against amateur, semipro, and professional teams, including
12-696: The racially integrated Resolutes Club from Oberlin College . In 1871 the Forest Citys joined the first professional league, the National Association . The Forest Citys' home games were played at the National Association Grounds in Cleveland. Forest City played in the first National Association game, as the visiting team against the Kekionga club of Fort Wayne, Indiana . They were shut out by
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