Early baseball in Massachusetts/Club 25

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Location Massachusetts
Year 1866
Month 8
City Lowell
State MA
Country US
Nickname M. T.
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Lowell Daily Citizen, Aug. 9, 1866: "Base Ball Match. A base ball match was played on Salem Common, on Tuesday afternoon, between a picked nine of the Salem Clubs, and eight of the M.T. Base Ball Club, of Lowell..." The game was a nine inning tie.

Lowell MA (1870 pop. about 41,000) is about 25 miles N of Boston and near the NH border..

Sources

Lowell Daily Citizen, Aug. 9, 1866

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