Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 7

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Location	New York (state)
Year	1860
Month	4
City	Dunkirk
State	NY
Country	US
Nickname	Young American Base Ball Club

From Protoball Entry #1860.51 – Base Ball Is Reaching Remote Spots in New York State

"The Dunkirk Journal says that the young men of that village have organized a �young American Base Ball club. . . . [we in Jamestown, too] should be glad to see [base ball] engaged in by our clerks and business men generally during the summer"

Jamestown [NY] Journal, April 20, 1860. Accessed by subscription search May 21, 2009. Dunkirk NY is about 45 miles SW of Buffalo on the shore of Lake Erie. Jamestown NY is about 60 miles S of Buffalo.