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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1860
|Year Number=23
|Headline=NY Game Gets to ME
|Headline=NY Game Gets to ME
|Year=1860
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=College
|Tags=College,
|Text=<p>"The first <i>documented</i> game of baseball to actually be played in Maine took place on October 10, 1860. . . . that October saw the Sunrise Club of Brunswick host the senior class team of Bowdoin [College] at the Topsham Fair Grounds."</p>
|State=US
<p>Anderson, Will, <u>Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine?</u> (Will Anderson, Publisher, Portland, 1992), page 1. Anderson appears to rely on <i>The Brunswick Telegraph</i>, October 12, 1860.</p>
|City=ME
|Modern Address=Brunswick
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>"The first <em>documented</em> game of baseball to actually be played in Maine took place on October 10, 1860. . . . that October saw the Sunrise Club of Brunswick host the senior class team of Bowdoin [College] at the Topsham Fair Grounds."</p>
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|Sources=<p>Anderson, Will,&nbsp;<span>Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine?</span>&nbsp;(Will Anderson, Publisher, Portland, 1992), page 1. Anderson appears to rely on&nbsp;<em>The Brunswick Telegraph</em>, October 12, 1860.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=23
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Game Base Ball
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"The first documented game of baseball to actually be played in Maine took place on October 10, 1860. . . . that October saw the Sunrise Club of Brunswick host the senior class team of Bowdoin [College] at the Topsham Fair Grounds."

 

Sources

Anderson, Will, Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine? (Will Anderson, Publisher, Portland, 1992), page 1. Anderson appears to rely on The Brunswick Telegraph, October 12, 1860.

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