Early baseball in Kentucky/Club 5

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Location Kentucky
Year 1859
City Dayton
State KY
Nickname unnamed club
Found by Greg Perkins

"The neighboring town of Dayton, Kentucky, deserves whatever of credit is due to our efforts in starting base ball. That small town had a club, and feeling that their practice, indulged for several years, would enable them to gain celebrity at a small risk, published a challenge in 1859, to any club within a hundred miles."

Dayton KY is across the Ohio River from Cincinnati.

Sources

Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 21 August 1870

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