Early baseball in Florida/Club 1

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Location	Florida
Year	1870
Modern address	Fernandina FL
City	Fernandina
State	FL
Found by	Bruce Allardice

A baseball game was played in Fernandina early in 1870. See “First Baseball Team in Fernandina,” Nassau County Genealogist, vol. 2 no. 1 (Fall 1994), p. 25.

Fernandina Beach, FL, is about 25 miles NE of Jacksonville on the Atlantic Coast.

Sources

“First Baseball Team in Fernandina,” Nassau County Genealogist, vol. 2 no. 1 (Fall 1994), p. 25.