Early baseball in Alaska/Club 2
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| Location | Alaska |
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| Year | 1886 |
| Month | 8 |
| Modern address | Sitka AK |
| City | Sitka |
| State | AK |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Salt Lake City Herald, Aug. 15, 1886: "Sitka, in far-away Alaska, has a base-ball club."
Sitka, AK is in the Alaskan panhandle and about 800 miles NW of Seattle WA. Its population in 1900 was about 1,100.
Sources
Salt Lake City Herald, Aug. 15, 1886
