Early baseball in Arkansas/Game 9

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1867
Month	6
Date	25
City	Hot Springs
State	AR
Country	US
Modern address	Hot Springs AR
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, June 28, 1867, has a letter from Hot Springs of June 25th, saying “Various forms of amusement are here resorted to … In front of the stately Sumpter House each evening… there collects a group of athletes and run the rare sport of base-ball.”

Hot Springs is about 45 miles SW of Little Rock.

Sources

Little Rock Daily Arkansas Gazette, June 28, 1867