Early baseball in Massachusetts/Club 36
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Location | Massachusetts |
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Year | 1868 |
Month | 11 |
Note on date | No Later than November 1868 |
City | Georgetown |
State | MA |
Nickname | Sunset |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
Boston Journal Nov. 11, 1868: "The Haverhill Base Ball Club and the Sunset club of Georgetown played a match game on Saturday afternoon..." [Nov. 8th]
Georgetown MA (1870 pop. about 2,100) is about 30 miles N of Boston.
Sources
Boston Journal Nov. 11, 1868