Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 29

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Paper cited below gives game account from the previous Sunday (April 26) in Ely between the Tower Maroons and the Ely Vermilions. Ely won 19-17.

Tower and Ely may have played in 1889 (most of game account was clipped out from the June 20, 1889 issue of the Vermilion Iron Journal, Tower, Mn}

Population of Ely in 1890 was 901......3,717 in 1900 and a high of 6,156 in 1930. Ely is in the NE corner of the state, about 250 miles NE of Minneapolis and 100 miles NE of Duluth.

Sources

Ely Times, Friday, May 1, 1891

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