Early baseball in Massachusetts/Club 21

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Location	Massachusetts
Year	1867
City	Roxbury
State	MA
Nickname	Bay State BBC
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Boston Journal, April 18, 1867: headline "Roxbury Base Ball." Announces the annual meeting of the Bay State BBC of Roxbury.

Roxbury MA (1860 pop. about 25,000, the 34th largest US city then ) is about 3.5 miles SW of downtown Boston.

Sources

Boston Journal, April 18, 1867