Early baseball in Alaska/Club 1

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Location Alaska
Year 1868
Month 7
Modern address St..Paul Island AK
City St. Paul Island
State AK
Nickname Knock down and Skin em
First in Alaska Yes
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Columbian Register 1-9-1869, quotes the Norwich Advertiser as saying that missionaries had brought baseball to Alaska. They formed a team on St. Paul's Island in July 1868, called the "Knock down and Skin 'em". Team members were missionaries (some from Hawaii) and local Inuits. The island is in the Bering Sea, and is used today as a stop for the fishing fleets (tv-ized in the show "Dangerous Catch".

St. Paul Island (current pop. about 550, 86% of them Alaska natives) is in the Bering Sea about 500 miles from the Alaskan coast.

Sources

The Columbian Register 1-9-1869. This article was picked up in other newspapers such as the Springfield (MA) Republican 1-14-1869, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer 1-12-1869.

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