Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 43
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| Location | New York (state) |
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| Year | 1859 |
| Month | 9 |
| Date | 24 |
| Note on date | not later than September 1859 |
| Modern address | Oswego NY |
| City | Oswego |
| State | NY |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Frontier Club of Oswego |
The first known reference to the Frontier Club of Oswego is a short notice of a game in Oswego against the Syracuse BBC on September 23, 1859. Syracuse won by 19 runs.
Oswego NY is about 35 miles NW of Syracuse, on the shore of Lake Ontario.
The population of Oswego County in 1860 is reported as about 75,000. The city of Oswego's population is now about 17,000.
Sources
Syracuse Standard, September 24, 1859.
It appears from this article that the (Oswego?) Times also covered this game.
