Early baseball in Arkansas/Game 10

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1869
Month	7
Date	3
City	Batesville
State	Arkansas
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Batesville
Team 2	Jacksonport Stonewalls
Team 1 Score	32
Team 2 Score	3
Found by	Bruce Allardice

A Stonewall Base Ball Club was organized in Jacksonport in April 1869. On July 3, 1869, they played a game with the Batesville Club at Batesville, losing 32 to 3. See Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos 3-4 (July/Oct. 1969), pp. 7-13

Sources

Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos 3-4 (July/Oct. 1969), pp. 7-13