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|Name=in Matanzas in June 1866
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|Date=1866/06/01
|Date=1866/06/01
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|Description=<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><span>UBAN Baseball apparently was born in June of 1866, when an American ship anchored in Matanzas Bay to load sugar. One day the U.S. sailors invited the Cubans to play a game they called baseball. Cubans joke that the Americans were motivated at least in part by a desire to sell baseball equipment; nonetheless, they helped build a baseball diamond at Palmar del Junco, where the first baseball games in Cuban history were played. (per 1989 baseball encyclopedia)</span></p>
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|Description=<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span><span>UBAN Baseball apparently was born in June of 1866, when an American ship anchored in Matanzas Bay to load sugar. One day the U.S. sailors invited the Cubans to play a game they called baseball. Cubans joke that the Americans were motivated at least in part by a desire to sell baseball equipment; nonetheless, they helped build a baseball diamond at Palmar del Junco, where the first baseball games in Cuban history were played. (per 1989 baseball encyclopedia).</span></p>
<p><span>A game was for sure played in 1867. See the Washington (DC) Evening Star, Sept.10, 1867</span></p>
|Sources=<p>Washington (DC) Evening Star, Sept.10, 1867</p>
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|Has Source On Hand=No
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|Comment=<p>This 1866 date may be apocryphal.</p>
|Query=
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Submission Note=
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=Matanzas, Cuba
|First in Location=Matanzas, Cuba
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Date of Game June 1866
Location Matanzas, Cuba
Description

CUBAN Baseball apparently was born in June of 1866, when an American ship anchored in Matanzas Bay to load sugar. One day the U.S. sailors invited the Cubans to play a game they called baseball. Cubans joke that the Americans were motivated at least in part by a desire to sell baseball equipment; nonetheless, they helped build a baseball diamond at Palmar del Junco, where the first baseball games in Cuban history were played. (per 1989 baseball encyclopedia).

A game was for sure played in 1867. See the Washington (DC) Evening Star, Sept.10, 1867

Sources

Washington (DC) Evening Star, Sept.10, 1867

Comment

This 1866 date may be apocryphal.

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Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Matanzas, Cuba


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