Early baseball in Alabama/Club 4
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Location | Alabama |
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Year | 1868 |
Month | 4 |
Modern address | Greenville AL |
City | Greenville |
State | AL |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Greenville club sent a delegate, local lawyer J. A. Padgett, to the 1868 Alabama state baseball convention. See Mobile Register, April 27, 1868.
Greenville AL (pop. about 7200 now) is about 120 miles S of Birmingham and about 45 miles SW of Montgomery.
Sources
Mobile Register, April 27, 1868