Early baseball in Texas/Club 40

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Location	Texas
Year	1873
Month	6
Modern address	Waco TX
City	Waco
State	TX
Country	US
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. I’ve not been able to verify this. The first contemporary account I found was the Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873, saying the “boys of Waco and Belton” will have a match game of base ball at Waco on the 16th.

Waco is about 90 miles SW of Dallas.

Sources

Galveston Tri-Weekly News, June 6, 1873