Wide Awake Club of Oakland

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Nick Name	Wide Awake
Earliest Known Date	1866
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Location	Oakland, CA, United States
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Nine Class	Senior
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Description	Peter Morris et. al., eds., "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870," pp. 319-321, says that Oakland had a Live Oak BBC in 1866, and a Wide Awake BBC in 1867. The Wide Awakes were composed of the teen age students at the College of California (now, UC Berkeley). Oakland CA had a populaton of about 1,500 in 1860 and 10,500 in 1870.
Sources	Morris et. al., eds., "Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870," pp. 319-321. Seymour R. Church, "Baseball 1845-1871"
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Found by	Angus Macfarlane
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice
First in Location	Oakland, CA
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