Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 24

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Location Pennsylvania
Year 1866
City Reading
State PA
Nickname Washington
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 18, 1866, has a long article on the Pennsylvania state base ball convention. Among the many teams mentioned as sending delegates was the Washington BBC of Reading.

Reading PA (1860 pop. about 23,000; 1870 pop. about 34,000)is about 50 miles NW of Philadelphia.

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Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 18, 1866

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