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{{Club
{{Club
|Coordinates=39.629526, -79.95589679999999
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|Name=Club of Morgantown  (U. of WVa)
|Name=Club of Morgantown  (U. of WVa)
|Club Name=Woodburn
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1868/01/01
|Date=1868/01/01
|Type of Date=Year
|Date Note=
|Is No Later Than=Yes
|Is Foundation Date=
|First Newspaper Mention=1/1/1868
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
|Date of Dissolution Note=
|Modern Address=Morgantown WV
|Country=United States
|City=Morgantown  (U. of WVa)
|State=WV
|State=WV
|Country=United States
|Borough=
|Coordinates=39.629526, -79.9558968
|City=Morgantown
|Description=<p>William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 13, says that students at the Agricultural College (soon to be the U of WV) started a baseball team in the Spring of 1868.
|Modern Address=
</p><p>Wheeling Register, April 24, 1877: "Base Ball is freely indulged in at the University."
|NABBP Status=
</p><p>Morgantown WV (1870 pop about 800; 1880 pop. about 750) is about 15 miles from the PA border and 65 miles C of Pittsburgh PA.
|NABBP Note=
</p>
|Description=<p>William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 13, says that students at 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 the Stars of Fairmont</p>
<p>Wheeling Register, April 24, 1877: "Base .Ball is freely indulged in at the University."</p>
<p>Morgantown WV (1870 pop about 800; 1880 pop. about 750) is about 15 miles from the PA border and 65 miles C of Pittsburgh PA.</p>
|Sources=
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|Has Source On Hand=No
|Comment=
|Query=
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
|Submission Note=
|First in Location=Morgantown (U. of WVa), WV
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=Morgantown, WV
|First in Location Note=
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Is No Later Than=Yes
|First Newspaper Mention=1868/01/01
|First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year
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Nick Name Woodburn
Earliest Known Date 1868
Location Morgantown, WV, United States
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William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 13, says that students at 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 the Stars of Fairmont

Wheeling Register, April 24, 1877: "Base .Ball is freely indulged in at the University."

Morgantown WV (1870 pop about 800; 1880 pop. about 750) is about 15 miles from the PA border and 65 miles C of Pittsburgh PA.

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Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Morgantown, WV
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