Early baseball in Alabama/Club 9

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Location	Alabama
Year	1867
Month	5
Modern address	Montgomery AL
City	Montgomery
State	AL
Nickname	Pelham
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Memphis Appeal, May 15, 1867 reports that the “Pelham” Base Ball Club was organized at Montgomery “last Thursday.” The Memphis Avalanche, May 31, 1868 reports that Montgomery has ten baseball clubs.

Montgomery AL (pop. about 205,000 -- 103rd in the US) is in central Alabama, about 95 miles S of Birmingham and 160 miles NE of Pensacola FL. Montgomery's population in the late 1860s was about 10,000.

Sources

The Memphis Appeal, May 15, 1867; Memphis Avalanche, May 31, 1868.