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Nick Name Mercantile
Earliest Known Date 1865 -- No Later than 1866
Location Rockford, IL, United States
Description

The Rockford Weekly Register-Gazette, Dec. 2, 1865, reports that the Forest City, Mercantile and Sinnissippi clubs of Rockford intend to send delegates to the North West Base Ball Convention, and give the names of the delegates.

The Mercantile Club of Rockford IL is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier. Rockford IL is about 80 miles NW of Chicago.

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The Rockford Weekly Register-Gazette, Dec. 2, 1865

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Rockford, IL
Entry Origin Sabrpedia

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