Early baseball in Iowa/Club 4

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Location	Iowa
Year	1864
Month	4
Date	29
City	Independence
State	Iowa
Country	Buchanan

The first baseball club organized in Independence was on April 29, 1864, at the office of J.M. Weart, who was the leading spirit in the enterprise.

Sources

History of Buchanan County, Iowa, and its people, Volume 1; Chappell, Harry Church and Katharyn Joella Allen Chappell; S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.; 1914; p 589.