Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 21

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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

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