Early baseball in Oregon/Club 7
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Location | Oregon |
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Year | 1867 |
Month | 5 |
Date | 11 |
City | Roseburg |
State | Oregon |
Country | USA |
Nickname | Unknown |
Found by | Mark Brunke |
Roseburg, Oregon, May 7, 1867 A base-ball club has been recently organized at this place, with Hon. S. F. Chadwick President; H. H. Gale, Secretary, and James Walton, Umpire. Weekly meetings are held at the Roseburg Academy, and the primary steps have been taken for improving the undeveloped muscle of Roseburg in good earnest.
Sources
(Reported in the Saturday, May 11, 1867 edition of The Oregon Sentinel, out of Jacksonville, Oregon. Page 1, Column 2.)