Early baseball in Georgia/Club 13

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Location	Georgia
Year	1877
Month	8
Modern address	Brunswick GA
City	Brunswick
State	GA
Nickname	Rebel
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Carolina base ball club of Charleston has not decided to accept a challenge of the “Rebel Club, of Brunswick, Ga.” Augusta Chronicle Aug. 31, 1877.

Brunswick GA (1880 population about 2900)is on the Atlantic coast about 55 miles N of Jacksonville FL and about 200 miles SW of Charleston SC.

Sources

Augusta Chronicle Aug. 31, 1877