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|Headline=Clubs Form in New Orleans LA, Interclub Play Begins
|Headline=Clubs Form in New Orleans LA, Interclub Play Begins
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=US South
|Location=Louisiana,
|Country=US
|Country=US
|State=LA
|State=LA
|City=New Orleans
|City=New Orleans
|Game=Base Ball,  
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult

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Clubs Form in New Orleans LA, Interclub Play Begins

Salience Noteworthy
Location Louisiana
City/State/Country: New Orleans, LA, US
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"The first interclub game reported in Louisiana took place on September 15, 1859, when the Empire Club beat the Louisiana Club, 77-64, a game which took two days to complete."

 

 

Sources

William Ryczek, Baseball's First Inning (McFarland, 2009), page 113. (no ref. given). A report and box score appears in the New York Clipper, Oct. 8, 1859.

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Another pair of clubs followed closely. The Southern and Magnolia clubs played in early October. [John Husman, "Ohio's First Baseball Game," July 16, 2004, page 4 (no source given).]

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