Club of Grand Crossing

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Nick Name Grand Crossing
Earliest Known Date 1872
Location Grand Crossing, IL, United States
Nine Class Senior
Description

The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 19, 1872 reports that the Actives of Chicago are to play the Kidder Club of Grand Crossing.

The Chicago Inter Ocean, May 30, 1876, reports that the newly organized South Chicago club intend to play "the club at Grand Crossing to test the championship."

A "Wilson's Nine" of Grand Crossing played in Peotone in 1877. See Peotone.

The team lost to the "Oly Browns" of South Chicago in 1879.

Grand Crossing, then a suburb, was later annexed by Chicago and is now a neighborhood on Chicago's south side.

Sources

The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 19, 1872 

The Chicago Inter Ocean, May 30, 1876

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Grand Crossing, IL

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