Early baseball in Florida/Club 17

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Location Florida
Year 1883
Month 5
Note on date No earlier than May 1883
City Rockledge
State FL
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Titusville "Florida Star," May 24, 1883: "The young men of Rockledge ... are organizing a base ball club."

Rockledge FL (current pop. about 25,000) is about 50 miles E of Orlando on the Atlantic Coast.

Sources

The Titusville "Florida Star," May 24, 1883

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