In Rabaul on 6 June 1937

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Date of Game Sunday, June 6, 1937
Location Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Description

A volcano eruption interrupted a baseball game at Rabaul, island of New Britain (now part of Papua New Guinea) on June 6, 1967. Cairns Post, Queensland, June 7, 1937.

Gamble, "Invasion Rabaul" p. 37 notes that Rabaul in the 1930s, while under Australian occupation, had a baseball diamond.

Sources

Cairns Post, Queensland, June 7, 1937.

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Papua New Guinea
Players Locality Local



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