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|Name=Spivins Club of Wheeling |State=WV

|Name=Fleetwood Club of Wheeling |State=WV

|Name=Strychnines Club of Wheeling |State=WV

|Name=United Club of Wheeling |State=WV

|State=WV |Description=<p>The Wheeling Register, May 5, 1877: "State News. Grafton boasts six base ball clubs."</p

|Location=WV |State=WV

|State=WV ...am E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000" p. 10 says that in 1866 residents of Parkersburg formed the Olympic BBC and the Blennerhassett

|State=WV |Sources=<p>Wheeling <em>Daily Intelligencer</em>, Oct. 11, 1875</p>

|State=WV |Sources=<p>Wheeling Daily Register, Aug. 2, 1869</p>

|State=WV ...the Agricultural College (soon to be the U of WV) started a baseball team in the Spring of 1868. This would appear to be the Woodburn BBC which played t

|State=WV ...am E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000" p. 10 says that in 1866 residents of Parkersburg formed the Olympic BBC and the Blennerhassett

...b is debating whether to accept a challenge that has been sent from a club in Hamburg, Germany." The Oct. 18 report specified that the recipient club was .... 9, 1867, San Antonio [TX]&nbsp;<em>Express</em>, Nov. 8, 1867, Wheeling (WV) Daily Register, Nov. 13, 1867, the Davenport (IA) Daily Gazette, Nov. 13,

...York Herald</em>, Sept. 9, 1868 reports that the United Club of Wheeling, WV beat the Mingo of Steubenville Saturday 34-24.</p> |First in Location=Steubenville, OH

|Headline="Round Ball" Played in Bangor ME: Cony&#39;s Side 50, Hunt&#39;s Side 49 ...was formerly called, but since changed to 'base ball,' was, in 1844, much in vogue, and was an exhilarating and agreeable amusement . . . ."</p>