Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 69
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Location | New York (state) |
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Year | 1859 |
Note on date | No Later than October 1859 |
City | Lockport |
State | NY |
Country | US |
Found by | Priscilla Astifan |
The Lockport Club lost 49-21 to the Live Oak Club of Rochester on October 6, 1869
Lockport NY (current pop. about 21,000) is about 20 miles NE of Buffalo and on the Erie Canal.
Sources
Priscilla Astifan, "The [Rochester] Live Oak Club," Peter Morris, et. al., Base Ball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), page 95.