Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 20

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Location	Minnesota
Year	1872
Month	5
Date	30
Note on date	no later than May 30, 1872
City	Duluth
State	Minnesota
Country	USA
Nickname	Duluth Base Ball Club
Found by	Rich Arpi

The baseball match will come off this morning at 9 o'clock instead of 2 p.m., as previously noticed. Seats will be provided for ladies.

other matches covered during the summer of 1872.

This is the first documented base ball game in the Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin twin ports area.

The Duluth Tribune of June 29, 1870 mentioned the Meteor BBC of Superior had cleared their ground for the season and issued challenges for a game on July 4th; but further issues did not report if any game was played.

Duluth population was 71 in 1860; 3,131 in 1870 and reached a high of 107,312 in 1960.

Sources

Duluth Tribune (weekly), Thursday, May 30, 1872