Early baseball in Arkansas/Predecessor Game 3

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Location Arkansas
Year 1863
Month 9
Date 30
City Little Rock
State AR
Country US
Name of game Wicket
Found by Caleb Hardwick

From the Civil War journal of James B. Lockney, Wisconsin 28th Regiment.


"In Camp near Little Rock. Ark Wednesday Sept 30, 1863.

Today was rainy in the A.M. & drizzled some P.M. The boys had a game of Wicket the first time I ever saw it played. They used clubs of hurdles and a large ball about 6 in. in diameter. Some of the Officers took part & the game passed off quietly."

Note that the camp was probably in what is now the Little Rock city limits.

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Civil War journal of James B. Lockney, Wisconsin 28th Regiment

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