Springfield Base Ball Club

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Nick Name Springfield BBC
Earliest Known Date Circa 1867
Location Springfield, MO, United States
Nine Class Senior
Description

"The Springfield Base Ball Club challenges any nine players in Greene County [Springfield's county] to match their first nine in a game of base ball, and tenders to any such nine the use of their bats and grounds for practice"

Missouri Weekly Patriot, June 27, 1867, page 3.

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The Springfield Base Ball club will play a match game next Monday afternoon. Lieut. Creighton will command one nine and Mr. I.H. Richards the other.

-Springfield Leader, June 6, 1867

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Found by Bruce Allardice, Jeffrey Kittel
Entered by Bruce Allardice, Jeffrey Kittel
First in Location Springfield, MO
Local-Origin Study Groups Missouri Project

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