Base Ball Club of Ottawa

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Nick Name Club of Ottawa
Earliest Known Date Monday, June 12, 1871
Location Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nine Class Senior
Description

The Ottawa Free Press, June 12, 1871: "Base Ball meeting this evening at 8:30, corner of Sparks and Metcalfe Streets."

Same, June 13, 1871, p. 3:

"Base Ball. At the meeting for the election of officers of the Ottawa Base Ball Club, the following were elected... President, R. Lang, Vice President, Geo. Hutchison, Secy.-Treas. Geo. E. Armstrong ...

"The members of the club now number thirty gentlemen, and perhaps an equal number purpose joining.

On Thursday next a game will be played on Parliament Square, between the first nine and the field.

The club will go to Prescott on Dominion Day to compete for the prize offered there."

Sources

The Ottawa Free Press, June 12, 1871, June 13, 1871

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Ottawa had 21,000 residents in 1871.

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Found by Bruce Allardice

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