Early baseball in Alaska/Club 10
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| Location | Alaska |
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| Year | 1915 |
| City | Anchorage |
| State | AK |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Fairbanks Daily Times, May 28, 1916, has a long article on Anchorage, a new town founded less than a year before. It notes that Anchorage has a baseball grounds, on which last July 4th the town boys played the town girls.
Anchorage AK is about 300 miles S of Fairbanks.
Sources
The Fairbanks Daily Times, May 28, 1916
