Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 1

From SABR Encyclopedia

< Early baseball in North Carolina
Revision as of 23:35, 3 September 2012 by Mccrayl01 (Talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to: navigation, search
SABR Origins Committee project on the
Spread of baseball
The American national game of base ball, by Currier and Ives, 1866
Key pages
Project home page
Project map
History of early baseball
Research needs in the spread of baseball
Lists
Earliest games by state
Earliest clubs by state
All games  ·  All clubs
Predecessor games
Other firsts in baseball
Help
Researching early baseball
Submitting research online
Spread of baseball: Home -> North Carolina -> Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 1
Location North Carolina
Year 1876
Month 4
Date 29
Modern address Albemarle NC
City Albemarle
State NC
Nickname Zeb Vance
Found by Bruce Allardice

The “Zeb Vance” club of Albemarle played the Gold Hill club on April 29, 1876. The Vance club lost bigtime, and soon disbanded. Salisbury Carolina Watchman, May 4, May 11, May 18, 1876.

Albemarle NC (1890 pop. about 250) is about 40 miles NE of Charlotte NC. Gold Hill NC (pop. unknown)is about 45 miles NE of Charlotte and about 15 miles NW of Albemarle.

Sources

Salisbury Carolina Watchman, May 4, May 11, May 18, 1876

Retrieved from "http://encyclopedia.sabr.org/wiki/Early_baseball_in_North_Carolina/Club_1"
Personal tools