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|Location=West Virginia
|Location=West Virginia
|Year=1866
|Year=1866
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|Month=8
 
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|City=Wheeling
 
|State=WV
|State=WV
|Country=US
|Country=US
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|Modern-address=Wheeling Island WV
 
|NYBaseball=Likely
|NYBaseball=Likely
|Locals=Locals
|Locals=Locals
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|Team1=Hunkidori BBC
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|First=No
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|Team2=Union Club of Washington PA
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|First=Yes
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|Approved=Yes
|Approved=Yes
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|Pagetext=A 2006 book evidently indicates that the first base ball game in West Virginia took place in 1866.
|Pagetext=A 2006 book evidently indicates that the first base ball game in West Virginia took place in 1866.
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William Akin's book describes how, in August 1866, Jacob Hornbrook, of the Hunkidori Base Ball Club, became "the first West Virginian to bat in a "match game of Base Ball."  He faced a pitcher from the Union Club of Washington, PA, on Wheeling Island WV.
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The book is William Akin. West Virginia Baseball: A History (McFarland, 2006).
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Wheeling Island is an island on the Ohio River within Wheeling WV.
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Open Issue:  Can we find any details about this game?
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|Sources=William Akin, West Virginia Baseball: A History (McFarland, 2006), page 5.  Obtained in snippet view, September 8, 2012.  The source note for this find is not displayed.
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