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NY Game Gets to ME
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | CollegeCollege |
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City/State/Country: | [[ME, US, {{{Country}}}|ME]], [[US, {{{Country}}}|US]], [[{{{Country}}}]] |
Modern Address | Brunswick |
Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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Text | "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."
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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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1860.23 NY Game Gets to ME"
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