Early baseball in Ohio/Club 19
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Location | Ohio |
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Year | 1866 |
Month | 8 |
Note on date | No later than August 1866 |
Modern address | Sidney OH |
City | Sidney |
State | OH |
Country | US |
Nickname | Enterprise |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Fort Wayne (IN) Daily Gazette, Aug. 27, 1866, reports on a game in Fort Wayne between the Kekionga of Fort Wayne and the Enterprise club of Sidney, Ohio, umpired by Mr. Woodward of the Buckeye Base Ball Club of Dayton, Ohio.
Sidney OH (1860 pop. about 2,000; 1870 pop about 2,800)is about 40 miles N of Dayton in western OH. )
Sources
Fort Wayne (IN) Daily Gazette, Aug. 27, 1866