Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 53

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1866
Month	8
Date	20
Note on date	No later than August 1866
Modern address	Skaneateles NY
City	Skaneateles
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Skaneateles Club

The first appearance of a club in Skaneateles in the baseball clippings of the Onondaga Hist. Assn was reported in August 1866 as a 50-29 loss by the Skaneateles club

Skaneateles is about 15 miles WSW of Syracuse. Its population is now about 7000.

Sources

Syracuse Journal, August 20,1866