Early baseball in Indiana/Club 13
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Location | Indiana |
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Year | 1868 |
Month | 9 |
Date | 9 |
Note on date | No later than September 1868 |
Modern address | New Albany IN |
City | New Albany |
State | IN |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Harrisburg (PA) Patriot, Sept. 8, 1868, runs a Sept. 7th item from Louisville, KY saying "A match game of base ball will be played at New Albany next Wednesday afternoon [the 9th] between the Falls City of this city and one of the New Albany clubs."
New Albany IN is about five miles NW of Louisville KY.
Sources
Harrisburg (PA) Patriot, Sept. 8, 1868