Americans resident in Calcutta v American sailors in 1924

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Date of Game 1924
Location Kolkata, India
Home Team  Add Club Page Americans resident in Calcutta
Away Team  Add Club Page American sailors
Score 2 - 3
Description

Seymour, "Baseball: The People's Game" vol. 3 p. 353: "Sailors from a flotilla of destroyers at Calcutta, India, in 1924 challenged and won over a  group of resident Yankees 3-2."

Calcutta is the former name of the modern Kolkata, one of India's largest cities. Note--A game had been played in Ceylon in 1889, and Kathmandu in 1889, when both of these were part of the British colony of India. But they aren't part of India today.

On Nov. 1,  1942 a US Army team played a team of local amateurs in Calcutta, winning 11-3. See Lowry, "Baseball's Longest Games", p. 104.

The Amateur Baseball Federation of India was established in Dec. 1983.

Sources

Seymour, "Baseball: The People's Game" vol. 3 p. 353

Comment

https://billstaples.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-history-of-baseball-in-india-1874-1947.html cites an ad for baseball equipment in India in 1874, suggesting (but not proving) that the game was played there.

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Kolkata, India
Players Locality Non-local



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