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Daybreak Club Forms in Providence RI

Salience Noteworthy
Location Rhode Island
City/State/Country: Providence, RI, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"Base Ball at Providence - We have received a notification of the formation of the Aurora Base Ball Club at this place, and in accordance with their name, the members meet from 5 to 7 o'clock in the morning. They have been out seven times since March, notwithstanding the pluvious state of the atmospheric phenomena this season."

 

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Porter's Spirit of the Times, Saturday, May 9, 1857. 

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Query

Is this item newsworthy because it is an early Providence ballclub, because it is a pioneering daybreak club, or neither?

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Submitted by Greg Christiano
Submission Note Facsimile contributed November 24, 2009.



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