In Hyde Park on 4 July 1866

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Date of Game Wednesday, July 4, 1866
Location Hyde Park, IL, United States
Description

The Chicago "Workingman's Advocate," June 23, 1866 reports that on July 4 there will be a unionman's picnic at "Woodville" on the Illinois Central Railroad. Baseball will be played there. 

The Western Railroad Gazette, July 17, 1858 recommends Hyde Park as a good place to picnic and enjoy "a good game of base ball."

Woodville Station is/was in Hyde Park, then a township, now a part of Chicago.

Sources

The Chicago "Workingman's Advocate," June 23, 1866

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Hyde Park, IL



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