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|Type of Date=Day
|Type of Date=Day
|Date=9/26/1866
|Date=2021/09/15
|Title=a carpetbagger club
|Title=a carpetbagger club
|Text=<p>Two base ball clubs in Richmond refused to play friendly matches with the Union club of that city, because the latter was composed of Northern men.</p>
|Text=<p>Two base ball clubs in Richmond refused to play friendly matches with the Union club of that city, because the latter was composed of Northern men.</p>
|Source=New York Herald
|Source=New York Herald
|Warning=
|Comment=<p>The objection was not so much that the Union Club comprised Yankees -Richmond Club president Babcock was a New Yorker after all- but that it comprised Yankee soldiers from the occupation army.&nbsp; -WCH</p>
|Query=
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
}}
}}

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Date Wednesday, September 15, 2021
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Two base ball clubs in Richmond refused to play friendly matches with the Union club of that city, because the latter was composed of Northern men.

Source New York Herald
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The objection was not so much that the Union Club comprised Yankees -Richmond Club president Babcock was a New Yorker after all- but that it comprised Yankee soldiers from the occupation army.  -WCH

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