Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 32

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Location	Minnesota
Year	1891
Month	5
Date	7
Note on date	no later than May 5th
City	Grand Rapids
State	Minnesota
Country	USA
Nickname	Grand Rapids Base Ball Club
Found by	Rich Arpi

" The boys have fixed up the base ball grounds in fine shape, and are now prepared to play ball with all comers. "

paper of Thursday, June 28 gives an account of a game between Cloquet and LaPrairie (a small community just south of Grand Rapids) from the previous Sunday (June 24), with Cloquet winning 25-14.

Paper of July 2 and July 23 gives accounts of games between Grand Rapids and LaPrairie

Grand Rapids; Incorporated in June 1891; population in 1900 was 1,428 and a high with the last census in 2010 of 10,869.

Sources

Grand Rapids Magnet, Thursday, May 7, 1891 (pp. 8, col. 1 Local news)