Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 26

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1868
City	Van Buren
State	Arkansas
Nickname	Ku Klux,?
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Van Buren had a base ball club in 1868, that was scheduled to play in a base ball tournament at the State Fair. See Little Rock Morning Republican, September 9, 1868. This town had a Ku Klux Klub in 1869. [Arkansas Baseball Encyclopedia, website at www.arkbaseball.com]

Sources

Little Rock Morning Republican, September 9, 1868