Early baseball in Utah/Game 3

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Location	Utah
Year	1866
City	Salt Lake City
State	Utah
Country
Site	Arsenal grounds
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Unknown
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin March 12, 1866, picks up a story from the Salst Lake City Reporter of March 6, saying Mr. Beadle, editor of the paper [J.. Beadle], Professor Keyes and others left their office to "witness a game of base ball being played on the arsenal grounds."

Sources

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin March 12, 1866