Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 51

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1865
Month	7
Date	11
Note on date	No later than July 1865
Modern address	Clinton NY
City	Clinton
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Hamilton College

Hamilton College is reported to have played the Central City BBC in July 1865, losing in Syracuse 12 to 10. This is the first known ref to the college club.

Hamilton College is in Clinton, NY, about 40 miles east of Syracuse and about 8 miles SW of Utica NY.

Sources

Syracuse Standard, July 11, 1865.