Early baseball in Wyoming/Game 2

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Location Wyoming
Year 1868
City Fort Fetterman
State WY
Country
Modern address Douglas WY
Was NY rules baseball Likely
Played by Non-locals
Team 1 Accommodation Club
Team 2 Laramie Club
First in Wyoming Yes
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Cheyenne Leader, April 30, 1868, printed a letter "From Fort Fetterman, April 17, 1868...a big base ball match was played a few weeks since, resulting in favor of the Accomodation Club over the Laramie Club." Presumably the two teams were made up of the soldiers at the post, and/or the post sutlers, Indian agents, etc.

From Wikipedia: "Fort Fetterman was a wooden fort constructed in 1867 by the United States Army on the Great Plains frontier in the Dakota Territory approximately 11 miles northwest of present-day Douglas, Wyoming."

Douglas WY is about 55 miles E of Casper WY. Laramie WY is about 125 miles S of Douglas.

Sources

Cheyenne Leader, April 30, 1868


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