Early baseball in Virginia/Club 21

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Location Virginia
Year 1868
Month 5
Date 5
Modern address Boydton VA
City Boydton (Randolph-Macon College)
State VA
Nickname Athletics
Found by Bruce Allardice

The Athletics of Randolph-Macon played the Confederate club of Richmond on May 5, 1868. [Daniel, Baseball in Richmond, p. 9.]

Boydton VA (current pop. about 450) is about 90 miles SW of Richmond. It is the former home of Randolph-Macon university and near the southern border of VA.

Sources

Daniel, Baseball in Richmond, p. 9.

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