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The Brooklyn Excelsiors were an early amateur baseball team, orginally formed in 1854.

The 1860 Excelsiors

The Excelsiors, in their history, featured such famous players as Jim Creighton, Asa Brainard, and Candy Cummings.

The Excelsiors made a famous tour in 1860 around New York and to big cities in other states, and according to Al Spalding, that tour (which was followed in the press) inspired thousands of young men.

List of known Excelsiors players

1854 New Members

• Jeremiah Nelson Tappan

1855 New Members

• Peter Chadwick

1856 New Members

• Charles Etheridge
• James Rogers
• Frederick Wells
• Pomeroy?

1857 New Members

• Joe Leggett
• A.J. Dayton
• Tom Morris
• George Cole
• William Young
• John Zuill
• Arthur Markham
• Dr. Joseph Bainbridge Jones
• R. Fleet
• Sunderling?

1858 New Members

• Jim Creighton
• Henry Polhemus
• Edwin Russell
• Thomas Reynolds
• John Whiting
• George Flanly
• John Henry Holder
• Samuel Kissam
• Bergen?

1859 New Members

• Aleck Pearsall
• Charles Whiting
• W. Kendall
• F. Biggs
• H. Brainard?

1860 New Members

• Asa Brainard

1861 New Members

• None confirmed

1862 New Members

• None confirmed

1863 New Members

• None confirmed

1864 New Members

• None confirmed

1865 New Members

• Richard Cooke

1866 New Members

• Candy Cummings
• Dickey Pearce
• Fred Crane

1867 New Members

• George Hall
• Fred Treacey

1868 New Members

• Milton B. Sweet

1869 New Members

• None confirmed

1870 New Members

• None confirmed