Early baseball in Georgia/Club 23

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Location	Georgia
Year	1871
Month	8
Modern address	Fort Valley GA
City	Fort Valley
State	GA
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871, has a lengthy article on a game played the 18th at Oglethorpe between the “Fort Valley nine” and the Pastime of Oglethorpe, won by the latter 35-23.

Fort Valley GA (current population about 9800) is about 95 miles S of Atlanta and about 65 miles E of Columbus GA on the AL border.

Sources

Macon Georgia Weekly Telegraph, August 29, 1871