Early baseball in Massachusetts/Club 20

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Location Massachusetts
Year 1867
Month 8
Note on date No Later than August 1867
City Fitchburg
State MA
Nickname Rollestone
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Lowell Daily Citizen, Aug. 15, 1867, reports that the Clipper BBC of Lowell lost to the Rollestone BBC of Fitchburg 43-23, at Fitchburg Aug. 12.

Fitchburg MA (1870 pop. about 11,000) is about 45 miles NW of Boston.

Sources

Lowell Daily Citizen, Aug. 15, 1867

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