Early baseball in Arizona/Club 8

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Location Arizona
Year 1874
Month 2
Modern address Yuma AZ
City Yuma
State AZ
Nickname Yuma City BBClub
Found by Bruce Allardice

The "Arizona Sentinel" [Yuma] Feb. 21, 1874 says "some of the prominent young gentlemen of Yuma" played "A Match Game of Base Ball" recently. The "Arizona Sentinel" [Yuma], April 22, 1876, says the Yuma City BBC played a game last Saturday against a team from Fort Yuma, California.

Yuma AZ (1870 pop. about 1150; 1880 pop. about 1,200) is on the CA border in the SW corner of AZ, and about 20 miles N of the Mexican border.

Sources

Arizona Sentinel [Yuma], Feb. 21, 1874; April 22, 1876

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