Early baseball in Alaska/Club 2

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Location Alaska
Year 1886
Month 8
Modern address Sitka AK
City Sitka
State AK
Found by Bruce Allardice

Salt Lake City Herald, Aug. 15, 1886: "Sitka, in far-away Alaska, has a base-ball club."

Sitka, AK is in the Alaskan panhandle and about 800 miles NW of Seattle WA. Its population in 1900 was about 1,100.

Sources

Salt Lake City Herald, Aug. 15, 1886

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