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“Wasn’t that a Sock Dolger!”: The Female Base Ball Club of Nashville (1868)
The earliest account of a club of women base ballists in Tennessee comes from the Nov. 22, 1868 Nashville Republican Banner. I’ve not found another account elsewhere to confirm the story, and given the journalistic standards of the time, I … Continue reading