Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 3

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Location	Pennsylvania
Year	1866
Month	5
Note on date	A few days before 5/19/1866
City	Huntingdon
State	PA
Country	US
Nickname	Social Base Ball Club
Found by	Larry McCray

"We are pleased to state that a Base Ball Club is about being organized in this borough [Huntingdon]. About twenty-five young men enrolled last Monday evening, and intend practicing until the necessary materials for the club shall have been purchased . . . . We have no doubt . . . Old Huntingdon's sons will be able to cope with their most successful comrades of the bat in neighboring counties."

Tuttle SVC website, accessed 2/28/2010 via Google Web search ("ball in huntingdon"). Huntingdon is the home of Juniata College and is about 50 miles W of Harrisburg and 20 miles E of Altoona PA.