Early baseball in Pennsylvania/Club 32
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| Location | Pennsylvania |
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| Year | 1866 |
| Note on date | No Later than October 1866 |
| City | Columbia |
| State | PA |
| Nickname | Columbia |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 18, 1866, has a long article on the state baseball convention. Among the clubs sending delegates was the Columbia BBC of Columbia.
Columbia PA (current pop. about 10,000) is about 75 miles W of Philadelphia in southern PA.
Sources
Harrisburg Patriot, Oct. 18, 1866
