Vantage Base Ball Club of Uniontown

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Nick Name	Vantage
Earliest Known Date	May 1866
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Location	Uniontown, PA, United States
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Nine Class	Senior
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Description	The Uniontown Morning Herald, Feb. 12, 1946, Jan. 30, 1945 reports that the first baseball team in Uniontown, the Vantage Base Ball Club, was organized in May of 1866 by (among others) Gen. S. M. Baily and Col. Andrew Stewart. James G. Johnston played. Hugh Oliphant of Princeton U. pitched. The first game in that town was Sept. 22, 1866, against a Waynesburg team that had future Iowa Governor Albert Cummings on it. Uniontown is 46 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It had 2,503 residents in 1870.
Sources	The Uniontown Morning Herald, Feb. 12, 1946, Jan. 30, 1945
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice
First in Location	Uniontown, PA
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