Early baseball in Texas/Club 40
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|Pagetext=The website Early Texas Baseball says that in 1872 a team from New Orleans played teams in Dallas, Waco and Austin. I’ve not been able to verify this. The first contemporary account I found was the Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873, saying the “boys of Waco and Belton” will have a match game of base ball at Waco on the 16th. | |Pagetext=The website Early Texas Baseball says that in 1872 a team from New Orleans played teams in Dallas, Waco and Austin. I’ve not been able to verify this. The first contemporary account I found was the Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873, saying the “boys of Waco and Belton” will have a match game of base ball at Waco on the 16th. | ||
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| + | Waco is about 90 miles SW of Dallas. | ||
|Sources=Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873 | |Sources=Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873 | ||
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Revision as of 21:43, 30 August 2012
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| Location | Texas |
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| Year | 1873 |
| Month | 6 |
| Modern address | Waco TX |
| City | Waco |
| State | Texas |
| Country | US |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The website Early Texas Baseball says that in 1872 a team from New Orleans played teams in Dallas, Waco and Austin. I’ve not been able to verify this. The first contemporary account I found was the Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873, saying the “boys of Waco and Belton” will have a match game of base ball at Waco on the 16th.
Waco is about 90 miles SW of Dallas.
Sources
Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873
