Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 52

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1865
Month	7
Date	21
Note on date	No later than July 1865
Modern address	Homer NY
City	Homer
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Monitor Base Ball Club of Homer

The first appearance of a Homer NY club in the baseball clippings collection at the Onondaga Hist. Assn was in a game reported in August 1865.

A search of Cortland County newspapers of 1865 shows that on July 21, 1865, the Homer Monitors defeated the Marathons 72-4 at the Monitors Grounds in a game lasting two hours and 15 minutes. The Monitors Grounds was located behind Cortland Academy in the Homer Village Green.

The Monitor BBC of Homer played against the Central City BBC of Syracuse at the Cortland County Fair Grounds, losing 27-23.

The Homer Monitors lost to the Syracuse Central Cities 29-21 on September 2, 1865, at Armory Park in Syracuse.

Homer NY is 30 miles south of Syracuse, and Cortland is about 3 miles south of Homer. Homer's current population is about 3300.

Sources

Cortland County Republican, July 27, 1865 Syracuse Journal, August 4, 1865