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|Club Name=Star
|Club Name=Star
|Type of Date=Year
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1865/10/01
|Date=1865/01/01
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Date of Dissolution Type=Day
|Country=United States
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|Nine Class=Senior
|Nine Class=Senior
|Description=<p>William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 7, says that in Nov. 1865 the Star and Anchor teams formed in Wheeling. The Hunkidoris organized in 1866. The Hunkidori Club of Wheeling WV is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.</p>
|Description=<p>William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 7, says that in Nov. 1865 the Star and Anchor teams formed in Wheeling. The Hunkidoris organized in 1866. The Hunkidori Club of Wheeling WV is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.</p>
<p>Akin p. 15 says that by 1867 Wheeling boasted 20 clubs, including the Baltic (the best), Resolute, United, Fly, LaBelle, Actives, Jockey, Columbia, Bachelors, Enterprise, Avalanche, Eagle, Benedicts, National, Muscle, Buckeye, Belmont and Champion. A Thorburn club played in 1867 (see&nbsp;<em>Wheeling Intelligencer</em>, April 19, 1867) and an Osceola Club formed in 1869 (Akin, p. 19).</p>
<p>These teams usually played on Wheeling Island, or "the Island." Wheeling had 19,280 residents in 1870.</p>
<p><span>REORGANIZED -- At a meeting of the &ldquo;State" base ball club on Saturday evening, the following named gentlemen were elected as officers for the ensuing year: Wm. Beryer, President, James A. McCoy, Vice President, Brady Morgan, Treasurer, Virgil Adams, Secretary. [Wheeling Daily Register, May 14, 1866, per Bill Hicklin] [the name "State" was corrected to "Star' in a later edition--ba]</span></p>
<p>Akin p. 15 says that by 1867 Wheeling boasted 20 clubs, including the Baltic (the best), Resolute, United, Fly, LaBelle, Actives, Jockey, Columbia, Bachelors, Enterprise, Avalanche, Eagle, Benedicts, National, Muscle, Buckeye, Belmont [a Bellaire Ohio club?] and Champion.</p>
|Sources=<p>Akin, "West Virginia Baseball"</p>
|Sources=<p>Akin, "West Virginia Baseball"</p>
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Comment=<p>Wheeling was the capital of West Virginia 1863-70.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice,
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=WV
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Nick Name Star
Earliest Known Date 1865
Location Wheeling, WV, United States
Nine Class Senior
Description

William E. Akin, "West Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000", p. 7, says that in Nov. 1865 the Star and Anchor teams formed in Wheeling. The Hunkidoris organized in 1866. The Hunkidori Club of Wheeling WV is listed in Peverelly [1866]. It may well have formed earlier.

These teams usually played on Wheeling Island, or "the Island." Wheeling had 19,280 residents in 1870.

REORGANIZED -- At a meeting of the “State" base ball club on Saturday evening, the following named gentlemen were elected as officers for the ensuing year: Wm. Beryer, President, James A. McCoy, Vice President, Brady Morgan, Treasurer, Virgil Adams, Secretary. [Wheeling Daily Register, May 14, 1866, per Bill Hicklin] [the name "State" was corrected to "Star' in a later edition--ba]

Akin p. 15 says that by 1867 Wheeling boasted 20 clubs, including the Baltic (the best), Resolute, United, Fly, LaBelle, Actives, Jockey, Columbia, Bachelors, Enterprise, Avalanche, Eagle, Benedicts, National, Muscle, Buckeye, Belmont [a Bellaire Ohio club?] and Champion.

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Akin, "West Virginia Baseball"

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Wheeling was the capital of West Virginia 1863-70.

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