Early baseball in Texas/Club 15

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Location	Texas
Year	1879
Month	8
Modern address	Crockett TX
City	Crockett
State	TX
Country	US
Nickname	Burnett
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Galveston Daily News, August 17, 1879: “Lovelady, August 16…Burnett base ball club of Crockett beat the Novell’s Prairie club 48 to 26 today.”

Crockett TX is about 110 miles N of Houston.

Sources

Galveston Daily News, August 17, 1879