Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 6

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Location Mississippi
Year 1880
Month 8
Date 9
Modern address Greenville MS
City Greenville
State MS
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, July 26, 1880: The Hancock base ball club [of Meridian] go to Greenville on the ninth of August, to play a match game at that city.”

Greenville MS (pop. about 34,400) is on the Mississippi River, about 100 miles NW of Jackson, about 80 miles N of Vicksburg, and about 160 miles NW of Meridian.

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Vicksburg Daily Commercial, July 26, 1880

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