Early baseball in Louisiana/Club 6

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Location	Louisiana
Year	1877
City	Delta
State	LA
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, July 5, 1877, reports: “Delta young men propose to organize a base-ball club, with Prof. Lackey, of this city, as leader.”

Delta LA is a village (pop. about 230) across the Mississippi from Vickburg MS. Is this the area the newspaper meant to cite?

Sources

Vicksburg Daily Commercial, July 5, 1877