Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 35
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Location | Pennsylvania |
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Year | 1866 |
Month | 5 |
Note on date | No later than May 1866 |
City | Sunbury |
State | PA |
Nickname | Star, Susquehanna |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Sunbury American, May 5, 1866: "We have, at present, two base ball clubs in this place, the Star and the Susquehanna."
Sunbury PA (1860 pop. about 1,800; 1870 pop. about 3,100) is about 125 miles NW of Philadelphia in north central PA.
Sources
Sunbury American, May 5, 1866