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things you might be asking about the excel file. It is as comprenhesive as I can get it with the reference material available to me. I do not claim this is all the teams there were.
header is the year
first colum is what we would call team nickname
second is the city the team is based in, not their primary venue.
third is the state, or in the case of New York City teams - the borough
fourth is Cat, or category. Prestiege might be another term here.
0 is professional and not used till 1869 & 70.
1 is prestigious teams that were prominent in the papers of the day.
2 is teams that played many prestigious clubs and were noted for doing so
3 is other BB clubs that played some prestigious BB clubs
4 is any other BB clubs I had solid information on
5 is any other BB clubs that I had inferred information on. A team mentioned somewhere but I found no records of it anywhere else. A good chunk of these might have never actually played a game against another BB club
nobody has asked about JIMMS yet. But I will answer anyways. These early amateur clubs played all sorts of matches that we would not consider a straight BB game. JIMMS stand for Juniors Intrasquad Married Muffins (beginners) Skates (yep they scheduled and played BB on skates). I dont really consider these games as legit BB games, but it does show club activity and I think that is of some value.
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