In Xalapa on 20 April 1847

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Date of Game	Tuesday, April 20, 1847
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Location	Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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Description	"Parque Los Berros, in Xalapa, Veracruz, is located a short distance to the southeast of the center of town, in the neighborhood of the Stadium. ... On his site, most probably the army campground, around April 20, 1847, that members of the Fourth Illinois Infantry Regiment played the first game of baseball in México, as gathered from oral tradition and recorded in a 1909 publication, perhaps the first ever played outside the U.S. As a bat, they used the "wooden peg leg" of Antonio López de Santa Anna that they had captured a day or so before, at the Battle of Cerro Gordo."
Sources	Wikipedia, citing Terry's 1909 Guide to Mexico
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Comment	Xalapa is also spelled Jalapa. This account is probably apocryphal. Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	Bruce Allardice
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