Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 15

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1877
Month	2
Modern address	Hotsprings AR
City	Hot Springs
State	AR
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, February 4, 1877, reports that the natives of Hot Springs have “commenced the organization of base ball clubs.”

Hot Springs is about 50 miles SE of Little Rock.

[NOTE: We have an account of ball being played at Hot Springs in 1869. See game #9 on the Early Games list.

Sources

Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, February 4, 1877