Early baseball in Ohio/Club 9
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Location | Ohio |
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Year | 1866 |
Month | 9 |
Modern address | Ashtabula OH |
City | Ashtabula |
State | OH |
Country | US |
Nickname | Ashtabula |
"East of Cleveland, Ashtabula had a team on the field. They hosted the Painesville 'Athletics' in early September."
Ashtabula (1860 pop. about 1,400; 1870 pop. about 2,000) is near Lake Erie, about 40 miles from Erie PA and about 50 miles from Cleveland.
Sources
James M. Egan, Jr., Base Ball On the Western Reserve (McFarland, 2008), page 7. The source may be the Painesville Telegraph.