Early baseball in Maine/Club 10
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Location | Maine |
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Year | 1864 |
Note on date | May have been 1865 |
City | Paris |
State | ME |
Country | US |
Nickname | Resolutes of Paris Hill Academy |
Found by | Peter Morris |
Paris Hill Academy's Resolute Club played the modern game in 1865, evidently playing against a club from nearby South Paris ME.
Paris ME is about 20 miles NW of Lewiston, and about 2 miles from Norway, and about 35 miles E of the NH border.
Sources
Percival Parris, "Oxford County Baseball in 1865," Norway (ME), Advertiser Democrat, April 13, 1945, as cited in Peter Morris, "The Pennsseewassees of Norway, Maine," Baseball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), pp. 9-10.