Early baseball in Texas/Club 17

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Location	Texas
Year	1873
Month	11
Note on date	No later than November 1873
Modern address	Denison TX
City	Denison
State	TX
Country	US
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The San Antonio Express, November 23, 1873, writes that the “Denison and Sherman base ball clubs are playing match games of base ball.”

Denison TX is about 65 miles NE of Dallas.

Sources

San Antonio Express, November 23, 1873