Early baseball in Maine/Club 3
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Location | Maine |
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Year | 1867 |
Month | 8 |
Note on date | No later than August 1867 |
City | Bangor |
State | ME |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Aug. 6, 1867, mentions the Bangor Base Ball Club.
Bangor MA (1860 pop. about 16,000 -- the 57th largest US city then) is about 120 miles NE of Portland ME and 220 miles NE of Boston MA.
Sources
Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Aug. 6, 1867