Early baseball in Mississippi/Club 8

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Location	Mississippi
Year	1876
Month	7
Date	4
Note on date	No later than July 1876
City	Iuka
State	MS
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Corinth beat Iuka in a match game on July 4th for the “championship of North Mississippi.” Memphis Daily Appeal, July 7, 1876.

Iuka MS (pop. about 300)is the NE corner of the state, about 210 miles NE of Jackson, and 20 miles SE of Corinth.

Sources

Memphis Daily Appeal, July 7, 1876