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Trenton Club Forms for "Invigorating Amusement"

Salience Noteworthy
Location New Jersey
City/State/Country: Trenton, NJ, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"BASE BALL CLUB. - A number of gentlemen of this city have formed themselves into a club for the practice of the invigorating amusement of Base Ball. Their practicing ground is on the common east of the canal. We hope that this will be succeeded by a Cricket Club."

 

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"Base Ball Club," Trenton (NJ) State Gazette (May 26, 1856) no page provided.

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Is this the first known NJ club well outside the NY metropolitan area?

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Submitted by Contributed by John Maurath, Missouri Civil War Museum at Historic Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis
Submission Note 1/18/2008.



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