Early baseball in Indiana/Game 2

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Location	Indiana
Year	1865
Month	8
Date	17
City	Elkhart
State	Indiana
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Laporte BBC
Team 2	Star of the West BBC, of Elkhart
Team 1 Score	98
Team 2 Score	28
Length	9 innings
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.

Sources

The Elkhart Weekly Review, Aug. 19, 1865