1862 in sports

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yp2=1860
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year=1862
ya1=1863
ya2=1864
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Baseball

*National Association membership drops from 55 to 33 clubs, shedding every one outside greater New York except the Victory club of Troy, which plays only local matches.
*The fraternity laments the death of Jim Creighton, its superhero, perhaps from organ damage sustained on the field. His outsize base ball memorial at Greenwood Cemetery will be a mecca for the fraternity during the amateur era.

Golf

*British Open - Tom Morris, Sr.

=Rowing=

*Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race - Oxford

Events

*First ski jumping competition held in Trysil

Deaths

*October 18 - Jim Creighton] , 21, American baseball player