Early baseball in Kentucky/Club 12
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Location | Kentucky |
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Year | 1875 |
City | Hartford |
State | KY |
Nickname | Omega |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Hartford Herald, Aug. 4, 1875: "The Omega colored club of Hartford challenged our base ball players for a game for five dollars, but they, not feeling disposed to recognize the civil rights bill... decline."
Hartford KY (current pop. about 2,500) is about 95 miles SW of Louisville.
Sources
The Hartford "Herald", Aug. 4, 1875