1868 - Deaf team vs. the Pastimes

The hearing impaired students of the Kendall School Base Ball Club of Washington D.C. took on the Pastimes June 6, 1868 at Madison Avenue. Although no box score could be found, the Sun remarked in the announcement for the game that “the deaf mutes have been successful against several of the best clubs of Washington.” The Kendall School became the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and then later renamed Gallaudet University. The prestigious school also gets credit for inventing the "huddle" in football when they were playing against another team of deaf players and needed to hide their sign language from their foes.

Picture is of the 1887 Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind Base Ball Club. The school had already been playing competitively for over a decade by then.