Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 15

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1871
Month	5
Modern address	Lebanon TN
City	Lebanon
State	TN
Nickname	Lebanon, University
Found by	Bruce Allardice

“To-day Saturday” the “rival clubs of Lebanon, namely: the Lebanon and University” will play “a match game of base ball.” Nashville Union & American, May 20, 1871.

Lebanon TN (current pop. about 26,000) is about 30 miles E of Nashville.

Sources

Nashville Union & American, May 20, 1871.