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{{Club |Coordinates=35.0456297, -85.3096801 |Entry Origin=Sabrpedia |Entry Origin Url= |Name=Lookout Club of Chattanooga |Club Name=Lookout |Type of Date=Year |Date=1865/01/01 |Date Note=No Later than November 7, 1865, as early as September 23, 1865 |Is Foundation Date= |Date of Dissolution Type=Day |Date of Dissolution Note= |Country=United States |State=TN |Borough= |City=Chattanooga |Modern Address= |NABBP Status=Member |NABBP Note=Listed in Peverelly (1866) |Nine Class=Senior |Description=<p>The earliest mentions of the Lookout Club are in the Nov. 18, 1865 edition of <em>Wilkes' Spirit of the Times </em>and <em>The New York Clipper</em>. The <em>Clipper </em>provides a box score of an intrasquad scrimmage and mentions that the club was formed on Sept. 23, 1865. There are further intrasquad scrimmages (at least twice with only seven or eight to a side) played in the spring of 1866. <em>The Spirit of the Times </em> article dates its announcement of the same match as Nov. 7, so this match must have been played before that date.</p> <p>The Chattanooga Daily American Union, March 3, 1866 reports on one such intrasquad game, and says the Lookout is "the championship Base Ball Club of the South."</p> <p>The <em>New York Clipper</em>, March 31, 1866 has the box score (with players names) of an intersquad game of this club.</p> <p>Chattanooga had a population of about 6,000 in 1870. It is located on the Tennessee River in the SE corner of the state near the Georgia border.</p> |Sources=<p>"Base Ball at Chattanooga." <em>New York Clipper</em>. Nov. 18, 1865.</p> |Source Image=NY Clipper 18651118.png |Has Source On Hand=No |Comment= |Query= |Reviewed=Yes |Submitted by=Bruce Allardice, Christopher Ryland |Submission Note= |Entered by=Christopher Ryland |Society=Tennessee Association of Vintage Base Ball |First in Location=Chattanooga, TN |First in Location Note= |Has Supplemental Text=No |Is No Later Than=Yes |First Newspaper Mention=1866/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year }}
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