Early baseball in Wisconsin/Club 11

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Location	Wisconsin
Year	1866
City	Green Bay
State	WI
Country	US
Nickname	Stars
Found by	Dennis Pajot

"The first match game [of the Oshkosh Everett base ball club] was played at Green Bay in 1865 on Astor Heights with the Stars of Green Bay, chivalrous baseball players. The Stars made thirty six tallies, but the Everetts won."^[1]

As of now nothing else is known of the Green Bay Stars.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hooper, Moses. Oshkosh in Base Ball. Oshkosh, WI: Castle-Pierce, 1913.