Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 19
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| Location | Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Year | 1866 |
| Month | 4 |
| Date | 20 |
| Modern address | Nashville TN |
| City | Nashville |
| State | TN |
| Nickname | Cumberland |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Nashville Union, April 21, 1866 announces that the Cumberland Base Ball Club was formed yesterday, and that a game between Cumberland and the Rock City Base Ball Club will be played near Fort Gillem “today”.
Query: Where is "Rock City?" Is it a nickname for Chattanooga? Is there any connection to the Little Rock Arkansas club (1867-1869) of the same name? [see http://arkbaseball.com.] Little Rock AR is about 350 miles SW of Nashville.
Query: Mister Google thinks that Fort Gillem, located near Atlanta, was built in 1917. But there was also such an istallation in Nashville in the 1860s.
Sources
Nashville Union, April 21, 1866
