Club of Oxford MS

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Nick Name Oxford
Earliest Known Date 1872
Location Oxford, MS, United States
Description

David Sansing, The University of Mississippi. A Sesquicentennial History, p. 140, says [Ole Miss] “students organized a baseball club in the early 1870s.”

The Semi-Weekly Clarion (of Jackson) Oct. 22, 1872 mentions the University Base Ball Club of Oxford.

Oxford MS (pop. about 19,000) is in northern MS, about 150 miles N of Jackson and about 50 miles SE of Memphis TN.

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The Semi-Weekly Clarion (of Jackson) Oct. 22, 1872

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Oxford, MS
Entry Origin Sabrpedia

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