Early baseball in Alabama/Game 8

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Location	Alabama
Year	1877
Month	8
Date	23
City	Troy
State	Alabama
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Troy Bloods
Team 2	Union Springs Seminoles
Team 1 Score	41
Team 2 Score	19
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Columbus Daily Enquirer, August 24, 1877, reports: “The game of base ball between the Bloods of Troy, and Seminoles of Union Springs, played at Troy yesterday, resulted in favor of the Bloods, by a score of 41 to 19.”

Sources

Columbus (GA) Daily Enquirer, August 24, 1877