Early baseball in Minnesota/Game 11

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Location	Minnesota
Year	1857
Month	8
Date	15
City	Nininger
State	Minnesota
Country	USA
Site	Nininger
Modern address	Nininger MN
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Nininger Base Ball Club
Team 2	inter-squad
Found by	Rich Arpi

The members of the Nininger Base Ball Club are notified to meet on Saturday afternoon, August 15, at 3 p.m., on the lower addition, when a game will be played. Persons wishing to join the Club can do so by handing their names to the Secretary, and paying the entrance fee of 25 cents.

   by order, G.H. Burns, President.

Charles Ledie, Secretary. Nininger, August 13, 1857.

Nininger MN is about 20 miles SE of St. Paul and 25 miles SE of Minneapolis.

Sources

Emigrant Aid Journal of Minnesota (Nininger, Minnesota ), Saturday, August 15, 1857.