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From the Louisville Courier-Journal, May 14, 1862 Bowling Green, Feb. 24, 1862 Mr. G. D. Prentice – Dear Sir: By the politeness of Thomas...

Notice From the Louisville Daily Courier, March 5, 1859 The members of the STAR BASE BALL CLUB will please meet at their Room this...

[Letters to Juliet, a romantic comedy starring Amanda Seyfried, is well worth watching if you’ve never seen it.] From The Argus of...

Colonel Marion Taylor was born October 30, 1822, in Ohio County, Kentucky, the son of Nicholas Curlet Taylor and Eliza Statler. During...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, July 31, 1867 Colored Base Ball – There are two fancy clubs of colored base ball players in this...

Met Face to Face on Many Fields – The Fifteenth Union Regiment and the Confederate Orphan Brigade – Stories of Shiloh, Stone River and...

From The Louisville Courier-Journal, June 13, 1887 The Spalding Blues, a colored base-ball club of Louisville, and the “God Almighty...

From the Maysville Evening Bulletin, June 15, 1893 James B. Forman, Colonel of the Fifteenth Kentucky, was doubtless the youngest Colonel...

From the South Kentuckian, June 26, 1883 The Hopkinsville colored base-ball club unbued with a spirit of conquest, visited Clarksville...

From the Charleston Daily Courier, February 12, 1818 THEATRE. To-morrow Evening, February 13, Will be Performed, Shakespeare’s Tragedy of...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, May 20, 1858 [From a long story about the appointment of District Central Committees around the state]...

The colored baseball fans were treated to a fine exhibition of semi-professional ball playing yesterday at the Louisville Unions Park,...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, July 23, 1860 There was a large crowd assembled on the ground near Jeffersontown, fine dancing and...

From the Louisville Courier-Journal, June 29, 1908 Louisville Unions Win The Louisville Unions and the Waldorfs, colored baseball teams,...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, July 30, 1860 On the 21st day of June, the Governor having previously ordered an election to be held...

Louisville Courier-Journal, May 23, 1908 The I.B.C. colored baseball team, of Indianapolis, will cross bats to-day and to-morrow with the...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, November 13, 1855 Your dog is a much injured animal. If a swindler be detected; if a rascal be sent to...

From the Louisville Daily Courier, October 17, 1846 Puffing by Contract – The New York journals do some queer things in the way of...

Louisville Courier-Journal, September 12, 1861 TO ARMS! TO ARMS! We are authorized to raise a Company of Infantry, to be mustered into...

Louisville Courier-Journal, May 18, 1908 The Louisville Unions defeated the strong Stars, of Columbus, Ind., by the score of 11 to 2...