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STEWART IN 7TH HEAVEN AFTER 7/7 SETS RECORD!

BUFFALO, NY, June 18 (1859) – In a twelve-inning battle at the Greater New York Sporting Grounds, Utica B.B.C. got the best of Niagara B.B.C. by the score of 8-7.

There were thirty total hits in the game, and nearly a quarter of them were by one man: record-setting Utica second baseman Archie Stewart, who was 7/7 on the day to become the first player in National Base Ball Organization history to record seven hits in a single game.

Stewart’s day with the bat:

• TOP 1: Single past third base off R. Smith
• TOP 3: Single past shortstop off R. Smith
• TOP 5: 1-run Single between left & center field off R. Smith
• TOP 6: 1-run Single past shortstop off R. Smith
• TOP 9: Leadoff Single past shortstop off R. Smith
• TOP 10: 1-run Single past shortstop off R. Smith
• TOP 12: 1-run Single between first & second base off W. Turner
• TOTAL: 7/7 (all singles), 3 R, 4 RBI

Stewart’s performance in Buffalo moves him past the five men in the 2+ years of the N.B.B.O. with six hits in a game:

• June 13, 1857: Raymond Clough (SCR) – 6/6, 3 RBI
• July 23, 1857: Charlie Johnson (BED) – 6/6
• July 31, 1857: Chester Ellis (ATL) – 6/7, 2 RBI
• June 24, 1858: Clarence Page (MUT) – 6/6, 5 RBI
• July 15, 1858: Alistair White (VIC) – 6/6, 4 RBI

He now stands alone in base ball’s early history.