Early baseball in Alabama/Game 10

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Location	Alabama
Year	1875
Month	8
City	Demopolis
State	AL
Country	US
Modern address	Demopolis AL
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Demopolis BBC
Team 2	A MS club
Team 1 Score	14
Team 2 Score	15
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875, reports on a game “last Wednesday” at Demopolis between a Mississippi team and the Demopolis club, won by the Mississippi team 15 to 14, for the championship of the two states.

Demopolis AL (pop. about 7500 now, about 1500 in the 1870s)is about 100 miles SW of Birmingham and about 35 miles E of the Mississippi border.

Sources

Birmingham Iron Age, August 17, 1875