Early baseball in Maine/Club 11

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Location Maine
Year 1867
Month 5
Date 17
City Mechanic Falls
State ME
Country US
Nickname Fleetfoots
Found by Peter Morris

The Mechanic Falls club in May 1867 played the Norway Club, and lost.

Mechanic Falls (current pop. about 3,000) is about 10 miles W of Lewiston.

Sources

Peter Morris et. al., Base Ball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), page 11.

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