Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 3

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Location	Mississippi
Year	1880
Month	8
Date	26
Modern address	Bovina MS
City	Bovina
State	MS
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 25, 1880: “the Riverside Base Ball Club go to Bovina on this evening’s train, to play a match game of base ball with the club of that place.”

Bovina MS is an unincorporated settlement about 7 miles E of Vicksburg.

Sources

Vicksburg Daily Commercial, August 25, 1880