Early baseball in Tennessee/Club 9

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1875
Month	6
Modern address	Humboldt TN
City	Humboldt
State	TN
Nickname	Pacific, Star
Found by	Bruce Allardice

“Tennessee News…. Humboldt is Base-balling.” Memphis Appeal, June 27, 1875. “The Pacific base-ball club, of Humboldt, is to play the Mutuals, of Jackson, very soon… Last Thursday the Star Club, of Swayne barracks [in Humboldt], defeated the Humboldt Pacifics by a score of thirty-nine to twenty-two.” Memphis Appeal, July 7, 1875.

Humboldt (current pop. about 8400) is about 15 miles N of Jackson and about 75 miles NE of Memphis.

Sources

Memphis Appeal, June 27, 1875, July 7, 1875.