Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 3

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Location Mississippi
Year 1880
Month 8
Date 26
Modern address Bovina MS
City Bovina
State MS
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 25, 1880: “the Riverside Base Ball Club go to Bovina on this evening’s train, to play a match game of base ball with the club of that place.”

Bovina MS is an unincorporated settlement about 7 miles E of Vicksburg.

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Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 25, 1880

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