Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 10

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1877
Month	8
City	Beebe
State	Arkansas
Nickname	Striped Stockings
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Beebe—The Beebe Striped Stockings played a picked nine from Newport and elsewhere in the county on the 16th of August. Newport Weekly News, August 25, 1877, cited in J. Dewitt Yingling, “The Day Baseball Came to Beebe,” White County Genealogist v. 33 p. 76.

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Newport Weekly News, August 25, 1877, cited in J. Dewitt Yingling, “The Day Baseball Came to Beebe,” White County Genealogist v. 33 p. 76