Early baseball in Alabama/Game 6

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Location	Alabama
Year	1874
Month	8
Note on date	no later than August 1874
City	Meridianville
State	AL
Country
Modern address	Meridianville AL
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Fayetteville BBC
Team 2	Meridianville BBC
Team 1 Score	48
Team 2 Score	22
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Fayetteville (TN) Observer Aug. 27, 1874 notes a game between Fayetteville and Meridianville “last Friday” at Meridianville, won by Fayetteville 48-22.

Meridianville AL (pop. about 2000 now)is about 100 miles N of Birmingham near the TN border and about 80 miles SW of Chattanooga TN.

Sources

Fayetteville (TN) Observer Aug. 27, 1874