The Philadelphia Pythians (also Pythian Base Ball Club, Pythian Baseball Club, or the "Pyths")[1] was one of the earliest Negro league baseball clubs, founded in 1865.[2][3] African-American leaders Jacob C. White Jr. and Octavius V. Catto established the team. The Pythians were composed of primarily business and middle class professionals from the surrounding areas of Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. Just two years after the Civil War ended, in 1867, the Pennsylvania State Convention of Baseball, located in Harrisburg, denied the "Pythian Base Ball Club" out of Philadelphia.[4] The team dissolved after Catto's death in 1871 and a new team formed under the Pythian name in the National Colored Base Ball League in 1887. The new team's first season went 4–1.[5][6] Due to financial troubles it folded after only one season.[7]
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