Early baseball in North Carolina/Club 13
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| Location | North Carolina |
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| Year | 1885 |
| Modern address | Oxford NC |
| City | Oxford |
| State | NC |
| Nickname | Granville |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
By 1885 Oxford had a baseball club, the Granville, captained by Jerome C. Horner, principal of the local Horner school. See Granville Connections, vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter 1998), p. 7, citing the Oxford Torch Light, April 4, 1885.
Oxford NC (current pop. about 8,500) is about 40 miles N of Raleigh NC and about 15 miles S of the Virginia border.
Sources
Granville Connections, vol. 4 no. 1 (Winter 1998), p. 7, citing the Oxford Torch Light, April 4, 1885
