Club of Abilene

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Nick Name Abilene
Earliest Known Date 1875
Location Abilene, KS, United States
Nine Class Senior
Description

Harold Evans, "Baseball in Kansas, 1867-1940," Kansas Historical Quarterly v. 9, issue 2 (1940) says that Abilene and Salina has baseball clubs in the early 1870s.

From the context, it appears that Evans' source was newspaper accounts from 1876 and before.

Ablilene was a "wild west" "cow town" that flourished in the 1870s. Future President Dwight Eisenhower played high school baseball there.

Sources

Harold Evans, "Baseball in Kansas, 1867-1940," Kansas Historical Quarterly v. 9, issue 2 (1940)

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Found by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Abilene, KS

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