Early baseball in Oklahoma/Club 5
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Location | Oklahoma |
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Year | 1889 |
Modern address | Oklahoma City OK |
City | Oklahoma City |
State | OK |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Bob Burke, "Baseball in Oklahoma City" (2003), p. 7: "By the fall of 1889 [the year the city was founded], Oklahoma City's first baseball grandstand was built near the location of the present Municipal Building.... The ballpark was thrown up quickly to host a series of games between Oklahoma City and its biggest rival, the team from Oklahoma Territory capitol city Guthrie."
Oklahoma City's pop. in 1890 was about 44000.
Sources
Bob Burke, "Baseball in Oklahoma City" (2003), p. 7