Early baseball in Nevada/Club 8

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Location Nevada
Year 1869
Month 9
City Carson City
State NV
Nickname "the Carson club" (the Silver Stars?)
Found by Bruce Allardice

The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869 mentions a match game "between the Virginia Base Ball Club with the Carson club..."

Virginia City NV (1860 pop. about 2,300; 1870 pop. about 7,000;) is about 10 miles NE of Carson City. Its current pop is about 850.

Sources

The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869

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