Early baseball in Virginia/Club 13

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Location	Virginia
Year	1866
Month	7
City	Harrisonburg
State	Virginia
Nickname	Lone Star
Found by	Bruce Allardice

In July of 1866 “the young men of Harrisonburg… formed themselves into a base ball club, under the supervision and instruction of H. H. Hopkins, of Baltimore. The club is known as the Lone Star…” See Scott H. Sale, “Take Me Out to the ballgame: Exploring the 19th Century Roots of Valley Baseball,” Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society Newsletter, v. 28 no. 3 (Summer 2006).

Sources

Scott H. Sale, “Take Me Out to the ballgame: Exploring the 19th Century Roots of Valley Baseball,” Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society Newsletter, v. 28 no. 3 (Summer 2006)