Early baseball in Texas/Club 16

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Location	Texas
Year	1874
Month	7
Date	4
Modern address	Dallas TX
City	Dallas
State	TX
Nickname	Trinity
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The website Early Texas Baseball says that in 1872 a team from New Orleans played teams in Dallas, Waco and Austin. On July 4, 1874, the Dallas “Trinities” lost a game to the Denison “Blue Stockings” in Dallas 35 to 33. See Dallas Weekly Herald, July 11, 1874.

Sources

Dallas Weekly Herald, July 11, 1874