Early baseball in Iowa/Club 11

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Location	Iowa
Year	1868
City	Council Bluffs
State	IA
Nickname	KuKlux
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Daily Iowa State Register May 24, 1868: "Council Bluffs has a base ball club, named the KuKlux."

Council Bluffs IA (1860 pop. about 2,000; 1870 pop. about 10,000)is on the western border of the state, and about 8 miles east of Omaha NE.

Sources

Daily Iowa State Register May 24, 1868.