Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 41

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Location Pennsylvania
Year 1866
Month 8
Note on date No later than August 1866
City Hanover
State PA
Nickname Young America
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Gettysburg "Adams Sentinel" Aug. 7, 1866, says there was a game at New Oxford Aug. 4, Young America of Hanover 16, Juvenile of New Oxford 17.

Hanover PA (1870 pop. about 1,800)is about 35 miles S of Harrisburg and 8 miles N of the MD border.

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Gettysburg "Adams Sentinel" Aug. 7, 1866

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