Early baseball in Wyoming/Game 2

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Location	Wyoming
Year	1868
City	Fort Fetterman
State	Wyoming
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Non-locals
Team 1	Accomodation Club
Team 2	Laramie Club
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Cheyenne Leader, April 30, 1868, printed a letter "From Fort Fetterman, April 17, 1868...a big base ball match was played a few weeks since, resulting in favor of the Accomodation Club over the Laramie Club." Presumably the two teams were made up of the soldiers at the post, and/or the post sutlers, Indian agents, etc.

Sources

Cheyenne Leader, April 30, 1868