Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 21

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	|Nickname=Scuppernongs, Hartnetts		|Nickname=Scuppernongs, Hartnetts
	|Submitter=Bruce Allardice		|Submitter=Bruce Allardice

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Location	North Carolina
Year	1868
Month	6
Modern address	Wilmington NC
City	Wilmington
State	NC
Nickname	Scuppernongs, Hartnetts
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The New York Herald, June 26, 1868 reports a game at Wilmington on Tuesday last between the Scuppernongs and the Harnetts

Wilmington NC (1890 pop. about 20,000) is about 125 miles S of Raleigh and on the Atlantic coast near the SC border.

Sources

New York Herald, June 26, 1868