Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 10

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Location	Mississippi
Year	1877
Month	8
Modern address	Meridian MS
City	Meridian
State	MS
Nickname	Moral
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 2, 1877, reports a match game between the Resolutes of Vicksburg and the Moral of Meridian, at the “Machine Shop” in Vicksburg.

Meridian MS (burned by General Sherman in 1864 -- pop. in 1870 was about 2700, now about 41,000) is about 90 miles E of Jackson and about 130 miles E of Vicksburg.

Sources

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 2, 1877