Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 22

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1876
Month	9
Modern address	Paris TN
City	Paris
State	TN
Country	US
Found by	Bruce Allardice

“Tennessee News… Paris has a base-ball club.” Memphis Daily Appeal, September 6, 1876.

Paris TN (current pop. about 10,000)is about 90 miles W of Nashville. According to Wikipedia, "A 60-foot (18 m) tall replica of the Eiffel Tower stands in Paris. Paris is also home of the "World's Biggest Fish Fry". Go, Paris.

Sources

Memphis Daily Appeal, September 6, 1876