Early baseball in West Virginia/Club 4
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Location | West Virginia |
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Year | 1877 |
Month | 9 |
City | Charleston |
State | WV |
Country | US |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Wheeling Register, Sept. 19, 1877: "State News... Charleston has the base ball mania."
Charles Town WV (current pop. about 3,000) is in easternmost WV.
Sources
Wheeling Register, Sept. 19, 1877