Early baseball in Iowa/Club 15

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Location Iowa
Year 1866
Month 5
City DeWitt
State IA
Found by Bruce Allardice

Des Moines "Daily Iowa State Register," May 15, 1866: "The young men of [DeWitt] have organized a base ball club."

DeWitt IA (1870 pop. about 1750) is about 20 mile N of Davenport IA.

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Des Moines "Daily Iowa State Register," May 15, 1866

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