Early baseball in Georgia/Club 39

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Location	Georgia
Year	1872
Month	5
Modern address	Rome GA
City	Rome
State	GA
Nickname	Pastimes
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Atlanta Daily Sun, Wednesday May 8, 1872, under the headline “That Base Ball Match,” quotes the Rome Commercial account of a game “Sunday Last” between the Atlanta Osceolas and the Rome “Pastimes.”

Rome GA (1870 population about 2700) is near the NW corner of the state and about 60 miles NW of Atlanta and about 60 miles SE of Chattanooga TN.

Sources

Atlanta Daily Sun, Wednesday May 8, 1872