Early baseball in Massachusetts/Club 36

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Location Massachusetts
Year 1868
Month 11
Note on date No Later than November 1868
City Georgetown
State MA
Nickname Sunset
Found by Bruce Allardice

Boston Journal Nov. 11, 1868: "The Haverhill Base Ball Club and the Sunset club of Georgetown played a match game on Saturday afternoon..." [Nov. 8th]

Georgetown MA (1870 pop. about 2,100) is about 30 miles N of Boston.

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Boston Journal Nov. 11, 1868

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