Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 10

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1877
Month	8
Modern address	Beebe AR
City	Beebe
State	AR
Nickname	Striped Stockings
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Beebe—The Beebe Striped Stockings played a picked nine from Newport and elsewhere in the county on the 16th of August. Newport Weekly News, August 25, 1877, cited in J. Dewitt Yingling, “The Day Baseball Came to Beebe,” White County Genealogist v. 33 p. 76.

Beebe AR (pop 7300) is about 40 miles NE of Little Rock and 55 miles SW of Newport.

Sources

Newport Weekly News, August 25, 1877, cited in J. Dewitt Yingling, “The Day Baseball Came to Beebe,” White County Genealogist v. 33 p. 76