Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 15

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Location	Minnesota
Year	1867
Month	6
Date	5
Note on date	no later than June 5, 1867
City	Rochester
State	Minnesota
Country	USA
Nickname	Gopher State Base Ball Club
Found by	Rich Arpi

Paper of date below reported the score (with runs and outs for each player) of a game played the previous Wednesday (June 5) between the Gopher State Base Ball Club and the Rochester Base Ball Club. The Gopher State Club won 39-22.

note: a number of challenges between these two teams were noted in the Rochester Post at least a month earlier but this is the first game with a recorded score. So it is quite likely that both clubs were organized previous to May 1867.

Sources

Rochester Post, Saturday, June 8, 1867