Early baseball in Connecticut/Club 1

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Location	Connecticut
Year	1858
City	Stamford
State	CT
Country	US
Nickname	Mazeppas

David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 224, lists 7 clubs with new rulebooks. They include base ball clubs in Stamford CT [Mazeppa BB Club], Newburgh NY [Newburgh BB Club, Louisville [KY]? [Louisville BB Club], New York City [Independent BB Club], South Brooklyn [Olympic BB Club], Jersey City [Hamilton BB Club], and, formed to play the Massachusetts Game, the Takewambait BB Club of Natick MA.