Early baseball in Texas/Club 9

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Location	Texas
Year	1870
Modern address	Calvert TX
City	Calvert
State	TX
Nickname	Merry Nine
Found by	Bruce Allardice

“Texas News and Views… Calvert will send her Merry Nine to play our Pioneers at a match of base ball during the [State] Fair [in Houston May 18-21]. This will draw a larger crowd than anything else, we venture.” Houston Texas Union, May 13, 1870.

Cslvert TX is about 130 miles S of Dallas and about 120 miles NW of Houston.

Sources

Houston Texas Union, May 13, 1870