Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 15

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Location North Carolina
Year 1879
Month 7
Date 4
Modern address Rocky Mount NC
City Rocky Mount
State NC
Found by Bruce Allardice

“The Wilson and Rocky Mount colored baseball clubs played a match game at this place [Rocky Mount] on the 4th instant. Wilson came off victorious.” Tarboro Southerner, July 10, 1879.

Rocky Mount NC (current pop. about 57,000, 55% of it African-American) is about 50 miles E of Raleigh NC. Wilson NC (current pop. about 50,000, 48% African-American) is about 45 miles E of Raleigh and about 20 miles S of Rocky Mount NC.

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Tarboro Southerner, July 10, 1879.

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