Early baseball in Texas/Club 26

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Location	Texas
Year	1879
City	Laredo
State	Texas
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Galveston Daily News, Feb. 23, 1879, reports (in mock horror) that “only a few days ago, in broad daylight, … a game of base ball was played in Laredo. It is even reported that some of the U.S. Soldiers are implicated.”

Sources

Galveston Daily News, Feb. 23, 1879