Early baseball in Alaska/Club 1

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Location	Alaska
Year	1868
Month	7
City	St. Paul's Island
State	Alaska
Nickname	Knock down and Skin em
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Columbian Register 1-9-1869, quotes the Norwich Advertiser as saying that missionaires had brought baseball to Alaska. They formed a team on St. Paul's Island in July 1868, called the "Knock down and Skin 'em". Team members were missionaries (some from Hawaii) and local Inuits. The island is in the Bering Sea, and is used today as a stop for the fishing fleets (tv-ized in the show "Dangerous Catch".

This article was picked up in other newspapers such as the Springfield (MA) Republican 1-14-1869, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer 1-12-1869.

Sources

The Columbian Register 1-9-1869, and other sources cited above