Early baseball in Arkansas/Club 20

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1869
Month	7
Date	3
Modern address	Newport AR
City	Newport
State	AR
Country	United States
Nickname	Stonewall
Found by	Bruce Allardice

On July 3, 1869, the Stonewalls of Newport, Jackson County, played the Independents of Batesville, Independence County. The game only lasted three innings, with the Batesville team winning thirty-two to three. The captain of the Stonewalls complained that the pitcher for the Independents threw too hard! [Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos. 3-4 (July/October 1969), 7-13. Duane Huddleston, “A History of Batesville’s First Baseball Team, the Independents, and its 1869 Record,” Independence County Chronicle 9 (July 1968), 43-49.]

Newport is about 90 miles NE of Little Rock. Batesville is about 30 miles NW of Newport.

Sources

Pat Allen Bailey, “A Century of Baseball in Jackson County,” The Stream of History, vol 7 nos. 3-4 (July/October 1969), 7-13. Duane Huddleston, “A History of Batesville’s First Baseball Team, the Independents, and its 1869 Record,” Independence County Chronicle 9 (July 1968), 43-49.