Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 43

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1859
Month	9
Date	24
Note on date	not later than September 1859
City	Oswego
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Frontier Club of Oswego

The first known reference to the Frontier Club of Oswego is a short motice of a game in Oswego against the Syracuse BBC on September 23, 1859. Syracuse won by 19 runs.

Oswego NY is about 35 miles NW of Syracuse, on the shore of Lake Ontario.

The population of Oswego County in 1860 is reported as about 75,000. The city of Oswego's population is now about 17,000.

Sources

Syracuse Standard, September 24, 1859.

It appears from this article that the (Oswego?) Times also covered this game.