Early baseball in Georgia/Club 14
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Location | Georgia |
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Year | 1875 |
Month | 8 |
Date | 14 |
Modern address | Cairo GA |
City | Cairo |
State | GA |
Nickname | Red Clouds |
Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Thomasville Times, Aug. 14, 1875, reports “Cairo still improves. She has a base ball club and a fumbling club. The base ball club has twenty-five members. They will appear in uniform today at two o’clock.” Same, Oct. 23, 1875 says the “Aucillas” of Boston “will play a Bainbridge club on the grounds of the Red Clouds at Cairo, this week.”
Cairo GA (current population about 9600) is about 200 miles S of Atlanta and about 30 miles N of Tallahassee FL.
Sources
Thomasville Times, Aug. 14, Oct. 23 1875