Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 39
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Location | Pennsylvania |
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Year | 1866 |
Month | 10 |
Note on date | No later than October 1866 |
City | New Castle |
State | PA |
Nickname | Lazy |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 29, 1866: "The Lazy's--New Castle, Pa. has an organization called the Lazy Base Ball Club."
New Castle PA (1870 pop. about 6,000) is about 50 miles NW of Pittsburg and 10 miles E of the Ohio border.
Sources
The Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 29, 1866