Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 48

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Location New York (state)
Year 1860
Month 8
Date 1
Note on date No later than August 1860
Modern address Fayetteville NY
City Fayetteville
State NY
Nickname Fayetteville Base Ball Club

A Syracuse newspaper, in reporting on a two games between Fayetteville and Chittenango, fixed the foundation of the Fayetteville at August 1. The two clubs split the two games.

These are the only 1860 games carried in the baseball clippings of the Onondaga Hist Assn; a Fayetteville club played Chittenango in 1865.

Fayetteville, now in the town of Manlius, is about 8 miles east of central Syracuse. Its population is now about 4300.

Sources

Syracuse Journal, September 22, 1860.

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