Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 28

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1868
City	Trenton
State	Tennessee
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Galveston Daily News, of August 25, 1868, reports on a Trenton Times story of the 1st in which a tax collector for the Trenton area saw a young man wearing the red pants of the local baseball team, and fled, think the young man was a Klan member.

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Galveston Daily News, of August 25, 1868