Early baseball in Kentucky/Club 12

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Location Kentucky
Year 1875
City Hartford
State KY
Nickname Omega
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Hartford Herald, Aug. 4, 1875: "The Omega colored club of Hartford challenged our base ball players for a game for five dollars, but they, not feeling disposed to recognize the civil rights bill... decline."

Hartford KY (current pop. about 2,500) is about 95 miles SW of Louisville.

Sources

The Hartford "Herald", Aug. 4, 1875

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