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|Date=19 | |Date=19 | ||
|Date-note=No later than August 1859 | |Date-note=No later than August 1859 | ||
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|City=Canastota | |City=Canastota | ||
|State=NY | |State=NY | ||
|Country=US | |Country=US | ||
|Nickname=Canastota Club | |Nickname=Canastota Club | ||
| - | |First= | + | |First=false |
| - | |Approved= | + | |Approved=false |
|Pagetext=The first known reference to the Canastota Club was in a Syracuse newspaper account of its game against the visiting Syracuse BBC in August 1859. The game was played in a grassy field where "the very many little depressions of an ordinary meadow field rendered entirely uncertain the course of a bounding ball." SBBC won the game by 6 runs. | |Pagetext=The first known reference to the Canastota Club was in a Syracuse newspaper account of its game against the visiting Syracuse BBC in August 1859. The game was played in a grassy field where "the very many little depressions of an ordinary meadow field rendered entirely uncertain the course of a bounding ball." SBBC won the game by 6 runs. | ||
| - | This is one of two games, both against Syracuse clubs in 1859, that are found in the baseball clipping collection of the Onondaga Hist. Assn | + | This is one of two games, both against Syracuse clubs in 1859, that are found in the baseball clipping collection of the Onondaga Hist. Assn. |
Canastota NY is about 20 miles east of Syracuse. Its population is now about 4000. | Canastota NY is about 20 miles east of Syracuse. Its population is now about 4000. | ||
|Sources=Syracuse Standard, August 19, 1859. | |Sources=Syracuse Standard, August 19, 1859. | ||
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