Early baseball in Oklahoma/Club 2
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| Location | Oklahoma |
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| Year | 1878 |
| Month | 6 |
| Modern address | Delaware County OK |
| City | White Water |
| State | OK |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Cherokee Advocate, June 1, 1878: "The base ball club at White Water, in this Nation [the Cherokee Nation], challenges any other club in the Nation for a game of base ball."
White Water was a post office in the Delaware District of the Cherokee Nation (now Delaware County, OK). The county seat is about 80 miles E of Tulsa and near the intersection of the OK, AR, and MO borders.
Sources
Cherokee Advocate, June 1, 1878
