Early baseball in Georgia/Game 2

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Location	Georgia
Year	1882
City	Albany
State	GA
Country
Modern address	Albany GA
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Unknown
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Weekly Sumter Republican July 14, 1882, the “colored” club of Albany has challenged the colored club of Americus.

Albany GA (1890 pop. about 4000) is about 160 miles S of Atlanta and abot 80 miles SE of Columbus GA.

Sources

Weekly Sumter Republican July 14, 1882