Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 41

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1859
Month	8
Date	19
Note on date	No later than August 1859
City	Canastota
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Canastota Club

The first known reference to the Canastota Club was in a Syracuse newspaper account of its game against the visiting Syracuse BBC in August 1859. The game was played in a grassy field where "the very many little depressions of an ordinary meadow field rendered entirely uncertain the course of a bounding ball." SBBC won the game by 6 runs.

This is one of two games, both against Syracuse clubs in 1859, that are found in the baseball clipping collection of the Onondaga Hist. Assn.

Canastota NY is about 20 miles east of Syracuse. Its population is now about 4000.

Sources

Syracuse Standard, August 19, 1859.