Early baseball in Maine/Club 10

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Location Maine
Year 1864
Note on date May have been 1865
City Paris
State ME
Country US
Nickname Resolutes of Paris Hill Academy
Found by Peter Morris

Paris Hill Academy's Resolute Club played the modern game in 1865, evidently playing against a club from nearby South Paris ME.

Paris ME is about 20 miles NW of Lewiston, and about 2 miles from Norway, and about 35 miles E of the NH border.

Sources

Percival Parris, "Oxford County Baseball in 1865," Norway (ME), Advertiser Democrat, April 13, 1945, as cited in Peter Morris, "The Pennsseewassees of Norway, Maine," Baseball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), pp. 9-10.

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