Early baseball in Georgia/Club 8

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Location Georgia
Year 1866
Month 5
Date 12
Modern address Atlanta GA
City Atlanta
State GA
Nickname Gate City BBC, Atlanta BBC
Found by Bruce Allardice

The first organized baseball game played in Atlanta took place May 12, 1866, in a field on Hunter Street west of Oakland Cemetery. The Atlanta Base Ball Club lost to a newly formed challenger, the Gate City Base Ball Club, 127 to 29.[Franklin Garrett, Atlanta and Its Environs (1954), pp. 725-727],

Atlanta GA (1860 population 9500, 1870 population about 23,000) is about 230 miles NW of Savannah.

Sources

Franklin Garrett, Atlanta and Its Environs (1954), pp. 725-727

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