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Date of Game Saturday, October 9, 1858
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Location Louisville, KY, United States
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Description

The Louisville Courier-Journal, Oct. 16, 1858:

"The Olympic Ball Club will play their weekly game of Wicket on Saturday, October 16th, at three o-clock, on the commons beyond Kentucky and Fifth Streets."

This is the same grounds that early baseball games were played on.

Sources

The Louisville Courier-Journal, Oct. 9, 16, 1858

 

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The Courier of the 9th calls wicket "a far more interesting game than base ball"

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