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{{Origins-club
{{Origins-club
|Location=Massachusetts
|Location=Massachusetts
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|Year=1874
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|Year=1885
|City=Gloucester
|City=Gloucester
|State=MA
|State=MA
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|Nickname=Mutuals, Eastern
 
|Submitter=Bruce Allardice
|Submitter=Bruce Allardice
|First=No
|First=No
|Approved=Yes
|Approved=Yes
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|Pagetext=The Springfield (MA) Republican, June 13, 1870, marveled that: "Gloucester has 12,000 inhabitants and no base ball club!"
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|Pagetext=Charles Bevis, "The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949" p. 38 says that in 1886 the Gloucester team dropped out of this league, which had been established the year before, due to lack of local interest. I have found no mention of baseball in Gloucester prior to the 1885 forming of this league.
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The Gloucester "Cape Ann Advertiser" May 13, 1872 declared that "The base ball mania has never reached our town..."
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The Springfield (MA) Republican, June 13, 1870, marveled that: "Gloucester has 12,000 inhabitants and no base ball club!"
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Same May 22, 1874, asked: "Have we a base ball club among us?"
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Gloucester is a fishing town north of Boston. I can only speculate that baseball interest was minimal here since most of the town's young men were usually out in the Atlantic fishing.
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Evidently a club was forming. Same June 5, 1874: "A match game of base ball took place at East Gloucester on Saturday, between the Mutuals and the Eastern Club, of this city, the former winning by a score of 46 to 20."
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Charles Bevis, "The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949" p. 38 says that in 1886 the Gloucester team dropped out of this league, which had been established the year before, due to lack of local interest.  
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Gloucester is a fishing town northeast of Boston. I can only speculate that baseball interest was minimal here since most of the town's young men were usually out in the Atlantic fishing.
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Gloucester MA (1890 pop. about 24,500) is about 30 miles NE of Boston. East Gloucester is a community of that city, on the eastern side of the bay.
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Gloucester MA (1890 pop. about 24,500) is about 30 miles NE of Boston.
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|Sources=Gloucester "Cape Ann Advertiser" June 5, 1874. Charles Bevis, "The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949" p. 38; The Springfield (MA) Republican, June 13, 1870
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|Sources=Charles Bevis, "The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949" p. 38; The Springfield (MA) Republican, June 13, 1870
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