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1920 Newspaper Aware of "25 Or So" American Base Ball Clubs by 1858 [We Now List Ten Times More] Over 260]

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A Boston paper on baseball history suggested that by 1858 there were 25 or so base ball clubs in he United States.

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Boston Post, July 24, 1920

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As of July 2022, Protoball lists over 260 base ball clubs from that era.

Bruce Allardice adds, 7/30/2022:  "the [Boston Post] 25 number seems to come from the number of clubs that attended the 1858 convention."

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice
Submission Note Emails of 7/29/2022 and 7/30/2022



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