In Matanzas in June 1866
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| Date of Game | June 1866 |
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| Location | Matanzas, Cuba |
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| Innings | 9 |
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| NY Rules | Yes |
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| 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) |
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| Has Source On Hand | No |
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| Entered by | Bruce Allardice |
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