Early baseball in Virginia/Club 25
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Location | Virginia |
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Year | 1871 |
Modern address | Suffolk VA |
City | Suffolk |
State | VA |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Richmond Whig, May 26, 1871, reports that “Suffolk, like almost every other town, has its base-ball club, numbering twenty-three members."
Suffolk VA (current pop. about 85,000) is about 80 miles SE of Richmond and about 25 miles SW of Norfolk.
Sources
Richmond Whig, May 26, 1871