Little Rock Jockey Club
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The Little Rock Jockey Club was established in 1834. Jockey Club races normally took place on the nearby Clinton Park Race Track in November throughout the 1830s.
Beginning in 1887 the Little Rock professional baseball club joined the Southwestern Baseball League, composed of Arkansas teams in Fort Smith, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluff, and Missouri teams from Webb City and Springfield. The Little Rock baseball team played on the grounds of the race track. The team played part of the 1895 season with the Southern League before disbanding.
The Jockey Club and Race Track were located at the present site of the Little Rock National Airport.
References
- Nate Hinkel, "Natural Game Evolves in Natural State," Arkansas Business, May 29, 2006.
- Ira Don Richards, Story of a Rivertown: Little Rock in the Nineteenth Century (1969), 15.
