Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 42
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| Location | Pennsylvania |
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| Year | 1875 |
| Month | 10 |
| Note on date | No later than October 1875 |
| City | Lock Haven |
| State | PA |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 6, 1875, repdorts that the Expert BBC of Harrisburg will leave today for Lock Haven to play "the principal club of that town.
Lock Haven PA (1870 pop. about 7,000) is in central PA.
Sources
Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 6, 1875
