Early baseball in Kentucky/Game 2

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Location	Kentucky
Year	1866
Month	9
Date	15
City	Covington
State	KY
Country	US
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Covington Base Ball Club
Team 2	Live Oak (Cincinati)
Team 1 Score	28
Team 2 Score	21

"This was the first game ever played in Covington, KY, and it was played near the residence of [captain and catcher] B. W. Foley"

Henry Ellard, Base Ball in Cincinnati (McFarland, 2004), page 22. Ellard does not give a source for this account.