Early baseball in Iowa/Club 4

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Location Iowa
Year 1864
Month 4
Date 29
City Independence
State IA
Country US
Found by Jeff Kittel

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.

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