Early baseball in Georgia/Club 2
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Location | Georgia |
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Year | 1867 |
Month | 2 |
Date | 14 |
City | Savannah |
State | GA |
Country | US |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
A "special meeting" of the pioneer base ball club is expected, "Edward G. Saltzman, president."
As of May 2012, we do not know if "Pioneer" was the name of the club, or whether it played. Saltzman was evidently the man who took the New York game to Boston a decade earlier.
Sources
Savannah Daily News and Herald, February 14, 1867; submitted by Bruce Allardice, August 14, 2010.