Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 16

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1869
Month	4
Modern address	Jacksonport AR
City	Jacksonport
State	AR
Nickname	Stonewall
Found by	Bruce Allardice

A Stonewall Base Ball Club was organized in Jacksonport in April 1869. Frank W. Lynn, editor of the Jacksonport Herald, was club president. On July 3, 1869, they played a game with the Batesville Club at Batesville, losing 32 to 3. See Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos 3-4 (July/Oct. 1969), pp. 7-13.

Jacksonport AR is now a town of about 230 souls at the confluence of the White and Black Rivers. It is in the NE part of the state, about 90 miles NE of Little Rock. Batesville is about 25 miles to the NW of the town.

Sources

Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos 3-4 (July/Oct. 1969), pp. 7-13.