Early baseball in Alabama/Club 8
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| Location | Alabama |
|---|---|
| Year | 1867 |
| Month | 4 |
| Note on date | no later than April 1867 |
| City | Mobile |
| State | AL |
| Country | US |
| Nickname | Dramatic |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The “Dramatic” Base Ball Club of Mobile played a match against the “Lone Star” of New Orleans in April, 1867, losing 92-7.[See Savannah Daily News, April 11, 1867, New Orleans Times, April 13, 1867 (citing the Mobile Register of the 11th).]
Mobile AL is on the Gulf of Mexico and near the Mississippi border.
Mobile's population was about 30,000 to 32,000 in the late 1860s. In 1860 it was the 4th largest CSA city and the 27th largest in the US. Mobile's cotton exports had been second only to New Orleans in the 1840s.
Sources
See Savannah Daily News, April 11, 1867, New Orleans Times, April 13, 1867 (citing the Mobile Register of the 11th).
