Early baseball in Wyoming/Game 2
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Location | Wyoming |
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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