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|Name=Club of Trenton TN |State=TN

|Headline=Baseball "all the rage" in TN |Location=TN,

|Name=Fayetteville, TN v Club of Meridianville in August 1874 |City=Meridianville

|State=TN |City=Smyrna

|State=TN |City=Cleveland

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Athens

|Name=in Jonesboro on 25 July 1870 |State=TN

|Name=Club of Lafayette TN |State=TN

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|Location=TN |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Tazewell

|First Newspaper Mention=1876/09/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/01/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Year

|Headline=86th Indiana Plays Town Ball in East Tennessee |Location=TN,

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/07/25 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|State=TN |City=McKenzie

|First Newspaper Mention=1870/03/25 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Day

|State=TN |City=Knoxville

|Headline=Soldier Under General Rosecrans Sees Ballplaying in Tennessee |Location=TN,

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/08/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|State=TN |City=Shiloh

|Name=Mountain City Club of Chattanooga |Club Name=Mountain City

|State=TN |City=Clinton

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Greeneville

|State=TN |City=Milan

|State=TN |City=Sewanee

|Headline=Soldier in TN asks sister to send him a baseball |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Lewisburg

|State=TN |City=Bunker Hill, Perry Co.

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Elkton

|Location=TN |State=TN

|Name=in Nashville in July 1860 |State=TN

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Rutherford

|State=TN |City=Chattanooga

|State=TN |City=Murfreesboro

|State=TN |City=Lebanon

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|City=Hopkinsville ...opkinsville and Clarksville. A Visit to the Former City". Article tells of a visit by the Bailey Base Ball Club of Clarksville to play the Brown Stockin

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Chattanooga

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Headline=Southern Girls Play Town Ball and Cat in Clarksville |Location=TN,

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Headline=Michigan Colonel Plays Ball in Tennessee, Still Rebuffs Rebs |State=TN

|Name=City Club of Knoxville |Club Name=City

|Name=Picked Nine of Memphis v Bluff City Club of Memphis on 26 May 1869 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Elkton, Giles Co.

|Location=TN, |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Memphis

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Knoxville

|State=TN |City=Clarksville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Pulaski

|Name=Rock City Base Ball Club of Nashville |Club Name=Rock City Base Ball Club

|State=TN |City=Memphis

|State=TN |City=Memphis

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|First Newspaper Mention=1874/05/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|Name=Mountain City Club of Chattanooga v Holston Club of Knoxville on 21 September 1867 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

{{Other First |Name=First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team

{{Other First |Name=First Known Female Base Ball Team in Tennessee

|First Name=Edmund F. ...and married Margaret Murray in Edgefield, TN. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1900.</p>

|Name=in Helena in August 1873 |City=Helena

|First Newspaper Mention=1867/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Name=Thomas ...Mechanics Base Ball Club of Memphis. In 1868 he was playing for the Bluff City Base Ball Club of Memphis.</p>

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Name=Bluff City Club of Memphis v Southern Club of New Orleans on 13 August 1869 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Chattanooga

|Name=In Memphis in 1866 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Chattanooga

|Name=In Coliumbia Circa 1855 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Chattanooga

|First Name=John D. ...n McGrainger" listed in the Memphis City Directory for 1867, but there was a "John D. Grainger," which is very likely the correct name.</p>

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/04/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|First Newspaper Mention=1868/07/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Name=In Bolivar Circa 1837 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Knoxville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN, GA |City=Atlanta

|State=TN |City=Knoxville

|City=Oxford ...History, p. 140, says [Ole Miss] &ldquo;students organized a baseball club in the early 1870s.&rdquo;</p>

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Ball in Chicago |City=Chicago

|City=Corinth ...cription=<p><em>Weekly Mississippi Pilot</em> April 30, 1870: "Corinth has a Base Ball Club."</p>

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Name=Blue Stocking Base Ball Club of Nashville v Nashville Base Ball Club in August 1870 |State=TN

|Name=Bob Tail Club of Nashville v Mackleback Club of Nashville in December 1866 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Elkton, Giles Co.

|Name=In Blountville Circa 1850 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|Name=Colored Boot-Blacks v Negro Rag-Pickers in 1869 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Knoxville

|Name=Rock City Base Ball Club of Nashville v Eureka Base Ball Club of Nashville on 6 Octob |State=TN

|Name=In Nashville in November 1857 |State=TN

|Name=Rock City Base Ball Club of Nashville v Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield on 25 M |State=TN

|Name=in Cadereyeta on 4 July 1889 |City=Cadereyeta

|First Newspaper Mention=1875/06/01 |First Newspaper Mention Date Type=Month

|City=Abingdon ...n <em>Virginian</em>, May 17, 1867 reports that a baseball club was formed in the town May 13. Same, Nov. 1, 1867 reports that on Nov. 2 the Abingdon clu

|Name=Rock City Base Ball Club of Nashville v Stonewall Base Ball Club of Edgefield on 20 N |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|City=New Orleans |Field=Delachaise grounds in the upper part of the city"

|State=TN |City=Nashville

...x Club of North Nashville v Broadway Lightning Base Ball Club of Nashville in May 1868 |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|First Name=Ferdinand Victor ...on.<br /> During the Civil War he served with the Keystone Battery. He was a member of<br /> many organizations, among them the Military Order of the Lo

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Memphis

|Location=TN |State=TN

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|City=Emory (Emory College) ...<p>The Bristol News, May 26, 1874 mentions that Abingdon had recently lost a game to Emory College.</p>

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

|State=TN |City=Nashville

...below.&nbsp; It appears to have been played at times from the 1850s-1890s in locations outside the northeast US:</p> ...yed by every country boy, though only a few of their city cousins know the first rudiments of it."&nbsp;</p>

|Title=Ballplaying in Civil War Camps ...a Base: NOTE -- This article was updated and re-cast by Bruce Allardice in 2018