Early baseball in Ohio/Club 10

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Location	Ohio
Year	1866
City	Painesville
State	OH
Country	US
Nickname	Athletics
Found by	Larry McCray

The Painesville Athletics is known to have played Ashtabula in September 1866, and its second nine played the local high schoolers.

James M. Egan, Jr., Base Ball On the Western Reserve (McFarland, 2008), page 7. The source may be the Painesville Telegraph.

Painesville is about 30 miles NE of Cleveland near Lake Erie.