In Asheville in 1866

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Date of Game	1866
Location	Asheville, NC, United States
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Description	"Newspaper accounts indicate that the first baseball game in Asheville was played in 1866 on Smith's 118-acre tract, also known as the Barn Field . . . . Baseball soon became known as a 'club' sport, and 'sandlot attraction' played among talented amateurs." Bill Ballew, Baseball in Asheville (Arcadia, Date?), page 7. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search February 2010. Asheville NC (1870 pop. 1400) is about 110 miles W of Charlotte NC.
Sources	Asheville Times, Dec. 16, 1983; Bill Ballew, Baseball in Asheville
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Comment	Smith's Tract "extended from around Grove Street to the northeast corner of Aston Park." Camp Clingman, on/near the site of Aston Park, was a Civil War training camp and he site of the earliest match games, [ba] Edit with form to add a comment
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First in Location	Asheville, NC
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