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First Co-Ed college baseball game?

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Antedated Firsts, Championship Games, Females
City/State/Country: Evanston, IL, United States
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Adult
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Sheppard (ed.),"History of Northwestern University and Evanston" p 154 cites the college paper as reporting that on July 4, 1871: "Baseball Match Between Ladies' College nine and Northwestern University: prize a silver ball: score 57 to 4 in favor of Northwestern."

The "Evanston College for Ladies" was at the time separate from the main college.

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Sheppard (ed.),"History of Northwestern University and Evanston" p 154. Seymour, "The People's Game" also references this event.

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