Early baseball in Georgia/Club 37
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Location | Georgia |
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Year | 1871 |
Month | 8 |
Modern address | Oglethorpe GA |
City | Oglethorpe |
State | GA |
Nickname | Pastime |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871, has a lengthy article on a game played the 18th at Oglethorpe between the “Fort Valley nine” and the Pastime of Oglethorpe, won by the latter 35-23.
Oglethorpe GA (1870 population -- 400) is about 110 miles S of Atlanta and about 60 miles E of the Alabama border at Columbus GA.
Sources
Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871