Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 5

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1858
City	Rochester
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Flour Citys

From Protoball Entry #1858.27 – Flour Citys First Base Ball Club in Rochester

Rochester Union and Advertiser, March 28, 1903. Submitted by Priscilla Astifan, December 2006.

Note: A claim that the Live Oaks, or the Olympics, preceded the Flour Citys appears in an 1855 listing above.

The Flour City Club is listed as an NABBP member in 1861. M. Wright, The NABBP, page 63.

Sources

See club overview by Priscilla Astifan, "The Flour City Club, in Peter Morris et. al., Base Ball Pioneers (McFarland, 2012), pages 82-83.