Early baseball in Illinois/Club 6
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| Location | Illinois |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Note on date | No Later than 1866 |
| City | Rockford |
| State | IL |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Mercantile |
The Mercantile Club of Rockford IL is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier. Rockford IL is about 80 miles NW of Chicago.
