Early baseball in Indiana/Club 14

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Location	Indiana
Year	1865
City	Laporte
State	Indiana
Nickname	Laporte
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Elkhart Weekly Review, Aug. 19, 1865: "The Base Ball Match. The match game between the Laporte Base Ball Club, and the Star of the West, of Elkhart, came off on Thursday last [the 17th]" at Elkhart. Laporte won 98-28 in nine innings.

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Elkhart Weekly Review, Aug. 19, 1865