Early baseball in Alabama/Club 2

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Location	Alabama
Year	1878
Month	7
Note on date	No later than July 1878
City	Cullman
State	AL
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Cullman Southern Immigrant, July 4, 1878: “Local News…Our town is afflicted with a base ball club.”

Cullman AL is about 50 miles N of Birmingham. Its population in 1880 was about 425.

Sources

Cullman Southern Immigrant, July 4, 1878