Early baseball in Alabama/Club 19

From SABR Encyclopedia

< Early baseball in Alabama(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with '{{Origins-club |Location=Alabama |Year=1875 |Month=8 |City=Demopolis |State=Alabama |Submitter=Bruce Allardice |First=false |Approved=false |Pagetext=The Birmingham Iron Age, Aug…')
 
Line 3: Line 3:
|Year=1875
|Year=1875
|Month=8
|Month=8
 +
|Modern-address=Demopolis AL
|City=Demopolis
|City=Demopolis
-
|State=Alabama
+
|State=AL
|Submitter=Bruce Allardice
|Submitter=Bruce Allardice
-
|First=false
+
|First=No
-
|Approved=false
+
|Approved=Yes
|Pagetext=The Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875, reports on a game “last Wednesday” at Demopolis between a Mississippi team and the Demopolis club, won by the Mississippi team 15 to 14, for the championship of the two states.
|Pagetext=The Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875, reports on a game “last Wednesday” at Demopolis between a Mississippi team and the Demopolis club, won by the Mississippi team 15 to 14, for the championship of the two states.
 +
 +
Demopolis AL (pop. about 7500 now, about 1500 in the 1870s)is about 100 miles SW of Birmingham and about 35 miles E of the Mississippi border.
|Sources=Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875
|Sources=Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 19:56, 2 September 2012

SABR Origins Committee project on the
Spread of baseball
The American national game of base ball, by Currier and Ives, 1866
Key pages
Project home page
Project map
History of early baseball
Research needs in the spread of baseball
Lists
Earliest games by state
Earliest clubs by state
All games  ·  All clubs
Predecessor games
Other firsts in baseball
Help
Researching early baseball
Submitting research online
Spread of baseball: Home -> Alabama -> Early baseball in Alabama/Club 19
Location Alabama
Year 1875
Month 8
Modern address Demopolis AL
City Demopolis
State AL
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875, reports on a game “last Wednesday” at Demopolis between a Mississippi team and the Demopolis club, won by the Mississippi team 15 to 14, for the championship of the two states.

Demopolis AL (pop. about 7500 now, about 1500 in the 1870s)is about 100 miles SW of Birmingham and about 35 miles E of the Mississippi border.

Sources

Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875

Retrieved from "http://encyclopedia.sabr.org/wiki/Early_baseball_in_Alabama/Club_19"