Early baseball in Arizona/Club 8
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Location | Arizona |
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Year | 1874 |
Month | 2 |
Modern address | Yuma AZ |
City | Yuma |
State | AZ |
Nickname | Yuma City BBClub |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The "Arizona Sentinel" [Yuma] Feb. 21, 1874 says "some of the prominent young gentlemen of Yuma" played "A Match Game of Base Ball" recently. The "Arizona Sentinel" [Yuma], April 22, 1876, says the Yuma City BBC played a game last Saturday against a team from Fort Yuma, California.
Yuma AZ (1870 pop. about 1150; 1880 pop. about 1,200) is on the CA border in the SW corner of AZ, and about 20 miles N of the Mexican border.
Sources
Arizona Sentinel [Yuma], Feb. 21, 1874; April 22, 1876