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{{Club
{{Club
|Coordinates=39.3527829, -94.9222099
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
|Entry Origin Url=
|Name=Frontier Club of Fort Leavenworth
|Name=Frontier Club of Fort Leavenworth
|Club Name=Frontier
|Club Name=Frontier
|Date=1/1/1866
|Type of Date=Year
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1865/01/01
|Date Note=
|Is Foundation Date=
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Date of Dissolution Note=
|Country=United States
|State=KS
|Borough=
|City=Fort Leavenworth
|Modern Address=Leavenworth KS
|NABBP Status=
|NABBP Note=
|Description=<p>The Frontier Club of Fort Leavenworth KS is listed in Peverelly [1866].</p>
<p>The Leavenworth Times, Nov. 17, 1865, and the Leavenworth Bulletin, Mov. 10, 16, and 18, 1865, report the first (?) meeting and game of the Frontier BBC.</p>
<p>The Fort Leavenworth or Fort Scott club may have been the first to form in Kansas. Union army veteran Col. Thomas Moonlight helped found the club.</p>
<p>The <em>Daily Kansas Tribune</em> (of Lawrence), Oct. 26, 1866: "A base ball match for the championship of Kansas took place yesterday at Leavenworth, between the Frontier Club of that city and the Wyandotte club." They didn't know who won yet.</p>
<p>On August 1, 1867, "Freedom's Champion" newspaper reported that the Frontier Club claimed to be the champion team of Kansas.</p>
<p>Fort Leavenworth KS is about 5 miles N of Leavenworth KS. and about 30 miles NW of Kansas City KS. It is about 3 miles W of the Missouri River and thus the KS/MO state line. It had about 20,000 residents in 1866.</p>
|Sources=<p>The <em>Daily Kansas Tribune</em> (of Lawrence), Oct. 26, 1866</p>
<p>Leavenworth Times, Nov. 18, 1865, July 21, 1866</p>
|Source Image=
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Comment=
|Query=
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submission Note=
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=KS
|First in Location Note=
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Is No Later Than=Yes
|Is No Later Than=Yes
|Date Note=No Later than 1866
|First Newspaper Mention=1866/01/01
|First Newspaper Mention=1/1/1866
|First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
|First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
|Modern Address=Leavenworth KS
|City=Fort Leavenworth
|State=KS
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=39.3111112, -94.9224637
|Description=<p>The Frontier Club of Fort Leavenworth KS is listed in Peverelly [1866].  It may well have formed earlier.
</p><p>The Fort Leavenworth or Fort Scott club may have been the first to form in Kansas.
</p><p>On August 1, 1867, "Freedom's Champion" newspaper reported that the Frontier Club claimed to be the champion team of Kansas.
</p><p>Fort Leavenworth KS is about 5 miles N of Leavenworth KS. and about 30 miles NW of Kansas City KS.  It is about 3 miles W of the Missouri River and thus the KS/MO state line.
</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|First in Location=KS, United States
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
}}
}}

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Nick Name Frontier
Earliest Known Date 1865
Location Fort Leavenworth, KS, United States
Modern Address Leavenworth KS
Description

The Frontier Club of Fort Leavenworth KS is listed in Peverelly [1866].

The Leavenworth Times, Nov. 17, 1865, and the Leavenworth Bulletin, Mov. 10, 16, and 18, 1865, report the first (?) meeting and game of the Frontier BBC.

The Fort Leavenworth or Fort Scott club may have been the first to form in Kansas. Union army veteran Col. Thomas Moonlight helped found the club.

The Daily Kansas Tribune (of Lawrence), Oct. 26, 1866: "A base ball match for the championship of Kansas took place yesterday at Leavenworth, between the Frontier Club of that city and the Wyandotte club." They didn't know who won yet.

On August 1, 1867, "Freedom's Champion" newspaper reported that the Frontier Club claimed to be the champion team of Kansas.

Fort Leavenworth KS is about 5 miles N of Leavenworth KS. and about 30 miles NW of Kansas City KS. It is about 3 miles W of the Missouri River and thus the KS/MO state line. It had about 20,000 residents in 1866.

Sources

The Daily Kansas Tribune (of Lawrence), Oct. 26, 1866

Leavenworth Times, Nov. 18, 1865, July 21, 1866

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First in Location KS
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