Early baseball in North Dakota/Game 3

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Location	North Dakota
Year	1873
Month	8
Date	10
City	Bismarck
State	Dakota Territory
Country	United States
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Bismarck and Camp Hancock Base Ball Club
Team 2	D Company, 20th Infantry Base Ball Club
Found by	Terry Bohn

According to a game account in the Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck and Camp Hancock won the game, but the quality of print in the box score was too poor to make out a score. The D Company, 20th Infantry Club was comprised of soldiers from the nearby Army post, Fort Abraham Lincoln.

Sources

Bismarck (North Dakota) Tribune, August 13, 1873