Early baseball in South Carolina/Club 17

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Location	South Carolina
Year	1877
Month	3
Modern address	Ninety Six SC
City	Ninety Six
State	SC
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Augusta Chronicle, March 23, 1877, finds that “Base Ball is the great popular amusement of Ninety Six this season.”

Ninety Six, SC (current pop. about 2,000) is about 60 miles S of Greenville SC, about 60 miles E of Columbia SC, and 60 miles N of Augusta GA.

No one seems to be at all sure where the name "Ninety Six" came from. Sorry.

Sources

The Augusta Chronicle, March 23, 1877