Early baseball in Ohio/Club 7

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Location Ohio
Year 1866
Modern address Mansfield OH
City Mansfield
State OH
Country US
Nickname Exercise Base Ball Club

"In Mansfield Ohio, the Exercise Base Ball Club . . . [was] formed."

Mansfield OH (1860 pop. about 4,500; 1870 pop. about 8,000) is about 65 miles SW of Cleveland.

Sources

James M. Egan, Jr, Base Ball on the Western Reserve (McFarland, 2008), page 6. the source appears to be the Mansfield Herald from August 8 and September 5 and 12, 1866.

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