Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 32
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| Location | Minnesota |
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| Year | 1891 |
| Month | 5 |
| Date | 7 |
| Note on date | no later than May 5th |
| City | Grand Rapids |
| State | MN |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Grand Rapids Base Ball Club |
| Found by | Rich Arpi |
" The boys have fixed up the base ball grounds in fine shape, and are now prepared to play ball with all comers. "
paper of Thursday, June 28 gives an account of a game between Cloquet and LaPrairie (a small community just south of Grand Rapids) from the previous Sunday (June 24), with Cloquet winning 25-14.
Paper of July 2 and July 23 gives accounts of games between Grand Rapids and LaPrairie
Grand Rapids; Incorporated in June 1891; population in 1900 was 1,428 and a high with the last census in 2010 of 10,869. The city, on the Mississippi River, is about 170 miles N of Minneapolis and 70 miles NW of Duluth.
Sources
Grand Rapids Magnet, Thursday, May 7, 1891 (pp. 8, col. 1 Local news)
