Early baseball in Nevada/Club 8
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| Location | Nevada |
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| Year | 1869 |
| Month | 9 |
| City | Carson City |
| State | NV |
| Nickname | "the Carson club" (the Silver Stars?) |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869 mentions a match game "between the Virginia Base Ball Club with the Carson club..."
Virginia City NV (1860 pop. about 2,300; 1870 pop. about 7,000;) is about 10 miles NE of Carson City. Its current pop is about 850.
Sources
The San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin Sept. 15, 1869
