Early baseball in Georgia/Club 19

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Location	Georgia
Year	1879
Month	4
Modern address	Crawfordville GA
City	Crawfordville
State	GA
Nickname	Little Alecks
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Augusta Chronicle, April 26, 1879, reports “The young men of Crawfordville have organized the Little Alecks base ball club.”

Crawfordville GA (current pop. about 600) is about 90 miles E of Atlanta and about 50 miles W of Augusta.

Sources

Augusta Chronicle, April 26, 1879