Early baseball in Nevada/Club 8
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Location | Nevada |
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Year | 1869 |
Month | 9 |
City | Carson City |
State | Nevada |
Nickname | "the Carson club" (the Silver Stars?) |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869 mentions a match game "between the Virginia Base Ball Club with the Carson club..."
Virginia City NV (1860 pop. about 2,300; 1870 pop. about 7,000;) is about 10 miles NE of Carson City. Its current pop is about 850.
Sources
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869