Early baseball in West Virginia/Club 1

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Location	West Virginia
Year	1866
Month	8
Note on date	No Later than August 1866
City	Wheeling
State	WV
Country	US
Nickname	Hunkidori
First in West Virginia	Yes

The Hunkidori Club of Wheeling WV is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.

Sources

Peverelly, page 120.

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