Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 13

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Location North Carolina
Year 1885
Modern address Oxford NC
City Oxford
State NC
Nickname Granville
Found by Bruce Allardice

By 1885 Oxford had a baseball club, the Granville, captained by Jerome C. Horner, principal of the local Horner school. See Granville Connections, vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter 1998), p. 7, citing the Oxford Torch Light, April 4, 1885.

Oxford NC (current pop. about 8,500) is about 40 miles N of Raleigh NC and about 15 miles S of the Virginia border.

Sources

Granville Connections, vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter 1998), p. 7, citing the Oxford Torch Light, April 4, 1885

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