Early baseball in Indiana/Game 2

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Location Indiana
Year 1865
Month 8
Date 17
City Elkhart
State IN
Country
Was NY rules baseball Likely
Played by Locals
Team 1 Laporte BBC
Team 2 Star of the West BBC, of Elkhart
Team 1 Score 98
Team 2 Score 28
Length 9 innings
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Elkhart Weekly Review, Aug. 19, 1865: "The Base Ball Match. The match game between the Laporte Base Ball Club, and the Star of the West, of Elkhart, came off on Thursday last [the 17th]" at Elkhart. Laporte won 98-28 in nine innings.

Elkhart IN (1860 pop. about 1,400; 1870 pop. about 3,200) is about 15 miles E of South Bend.

Sources

The Elkhart Weekly Review, Aug. 19, 1865


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