Early baseball in Georgia/Club 45

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Location Georgia
Year 1875
Modern address Valdosta GA
City Valdosta
State GA
Nickname Tournament
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Thomasville Times, Oct. 2, 1875: “The Valdosta Tournament Club is making arrangements to enter for a prize offered [at the Thomasville Fair] and we hope our base ball [club] will do likewise.”

Valdosta GA (1870 pop. of 1200, 1880 pop. of 1500) is about 220 miles S of Atlanta and about 70 miles NE of Tallahassee FL. Thomasville is about 40 miles W of Valdosta.

Sources

Thomasville Times, Oct. 2, 1875

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