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Wicket Sprouts in Iowa

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Location United States
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"Protoball doesn't have any references to wicket clubs in Illinois during this period, although there is a reference to a 1857 club in Iowa. . . .  Clinton City, where the Iowa wicket club was located, is on the Mississippi, about sixty miles west of Ottawa and Marseilles.  Now the headline says that this was a game of base ball, rather than wicket, but the box score, which I attached, is kind of odd - three innings, possibly playing first to 200 runs. Sadly, they don't give us any information on the number of players per side."   

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Jeff Kittel, email to Protoball, 1/13/2008.  We are in 2022 searching for the article that Jeff had located.

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Submitted by Jeffrey Kittel
Submission Note Email, 12/1/2013



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