Early baseball in New York (state)/Club 9
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| Location | New York (state) |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Note on date | Spring of 1867 |
| City | Conesus |
| State | NY |
| Country | US |
"In the spring of 1867, the first base-ball club was formed here. They had their playgrounds, between Union Corners and Conesus Center, on lands owned by Timothy Degraw. This club existed only through one summer."
W. Boyd, History of the Town of Conesus (1887).
Rural Conesus is in western New York state, about 30 miles S of Rochester.
Sources
W. Boyd, History of the Town of Conesus, Boyd's Job Printing, Conesus, (1887), page 132.
