Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 51
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Location | New York (state) |
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Year | 1865 |
Month | 7 |
Date | 11 |
Note on date | No later than July 1865 |
Modern address | Clinton NY |
City | Clinton |
State | NY |
Country | US |
Nickname | Hamilton College |
Hamilton College is reported to have played the Central City BBC in July 1865, losing in Syracuse 12 to 10. This is the first known ref to the college club.
Hamilton College is in Clinton, NY, about 40 miles east of Syracuse and about 8 miles SW of Utica NY.
Sources
Syracuse Standard, July 11, 1865.