Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 11

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Location	Mississippi
Year	1869
Month	5
Note on date	No later than May 1869.
Modern address	Natchez MS
City	Natchez
State	MS
Nickname	Rosalie
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Natchez Democrat, May 4, 1869 had an advertisement inviting people to join the Rosalie Base Ball Club, at their meeting in “engine room No. 3.”

Natchez MS (pop. about 18,500) on the Mississippi River about 65 miles S of Vicksburg and about 95 miles SW of Jackson.

Sources

Natchez Democrat, May 4, 1869