Early baseball in Minnesota/Club 36

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Location Minnesota
Year 1872
Month 6
Date 22
Note on date no later than June 22
City Detroit Lakes
State MN
Country USA
Nickname Detroit Lakes Base Ball Club
Found by Rich Arpi

Base Ball -- A Base Ball Club has been improvised at Detroit (no slouches either) and there is a prospect of a match game on the Fourth, at this place, with the Glyndon Club, said to be a picked nine.

July 7th paper....no account of a base ball game on July 4th ....

no further base ball news in 1872


Detroit Lakes est. 1871.....population in 1890 was 1,510 with a high of 8,569 in 2010. It is about 200 miles NW of Minneapolis and about 45 miles E of Fargo ND.

Known as Detroit in its early years....name changed to Detroit Lakes to avoid confusion with the Michigan city....

Sources

The Weekly Record, Saturday, June 22, 1872 (pp. 4. co1.1) (Detroit Lakes, Mn.)

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