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Earliest Known Date 1868
Location Morgantown (U. of WVa), WV, United States
Modern Address Morgantown WV
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William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 13, says that students at the Agricultural College (soon to be the U of WV) started a baseball team in the Spring of 1868.

Wheeling Register, April 24, 1877: "Base Ball is freely indulged in at the University."

Morgantown WV (1870 pop about 800; 1880 pop. about 750) is about 15 miles from the PA border and 65 miles C of Pittsburgh PA.

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Found by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Morgantown (U. of WVa), WV
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