1867.17

First Multi-Racial Baseball Team?

Salience	Noteworthy
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City/State/Country:	Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Game	BaseballBaseball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
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Text	The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1867, ran a box score on what may be the first reported baseball match in Hawaii, between the Pacific and Pioneer Clubs. The players for the Pacifics included three non-Anglo names: J. Nakookoo, 2b; J. Naone, ss; and G. Laanui, rf. The Pacifics won the game 11-9. Now, baseball had been played at the famed Punahou School for years and that school included pupils from prominent Polynesian-Hawaiian and Anglo-Hawaiian families. This might be the first club integrated with Asians. Florence, MA in 1865 had a black player on their club. The same issue of the newspaper included a report on the formation of a "pure Hawaiian" (presumably Polynesian-Hawaiian) team: A new base ball club will soon be organized, to be composed entirely of pure Hawaiians.... The Pioneers and Pacifics [the 2 existing clubs, which played in the game above] will have to look out for their laurels."
Sources	The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Aug. 31, 1867
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Submitted by	Bruce Allardice
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