Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 5

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1870
Month	3
Date	25
Modern address	Columbia TN
City	Columbia
State	TN
Nickname	Columbia BBC
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Columbia Herald, March 25, 1870, announced that the “young men of Columbia” had formed the “Columbia Base Ball Club,” and gives a list of the club’s officers and members.

Columbia TN (current pop. about 34,000) is about 40 miles S of Nashville.

Sources

Columbia Herald, March 25, 1870