Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 28
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| Location | Tennessee |
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| Year | 1868 |
| Month | 8 |
| Modern address | Trenton TN |
| City | Trenton |
| State | TN |
| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
The Galveston Daily News, of August 25, 1868, reports on a Trenton Times story of the 1st in which a tax collector for the Trenton area saw a young man wearing the red pants of the local baseball team, and fled, thinking the young man was a Klan member.
Trenton TN (current pop. 4300) is about 90 miles NE of Memphis TN.
Sources
Galveston Daily News, of August 25, 1868
