Early baseball in Georgia/Club 14

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Location Georgia
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

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