Early baseball in Oklahoma/Club 6
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| Location | Oklahoma |
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| Year | 1889 |
| Modern address | Guthrie OK |
| City | Guthrie |
| State | OK |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Bob Burke, "Baseball in Oklahoma City" (2003), p. 7: "By the fall of 1889 [the year the city was founded], Oklahoma City's first baseball grandstand was built near the location of the present Municipal Building.... The ballpark was thrown up quickly to host a series of games between Oklahoma City and its biggest rival, the team from Oklahoma Territory capitol city Guthrie."
Guthrie OK (current pop. about 10,000)is about 30 miles N of Oklahoma City.
Sources
Bob Burke, "Baseball in Oklahoma City" (2003), p. 7
