Early baseball in Ohio/Club 6

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Location	Ohio
Year	1868
Note on date	Fall 1868
City	Northwood
State	OH
Country	US
Nickname	Geneva College
Found by	Larry McCray

"In the spring of 1868, the first base ball club was organized at Geneva College"

W. Glasgow, The Geneva Book (Westbrook, Philadelphia, 1908), page 155.

Northwood is in western OH and aobut 55 miles NW of Columbus. Geneva College, founded in 1848, was in Northwood until 1880, wqhen it moved to Beaver Falls PA.