First African-American Games

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Date	1859
Location	Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Description	[A] Report of July 4 game between Henson and Unknown Clubs [B] "November 15, 1859 - The first recorded game between two black teams occurred between the Unknowns of Weeksville and the Henson Club of Jamaica (Queens) in Brooklyn, NY."
Sources	[A] New York Anglo-African, July 30, 1859. Per Dean Sullivan, pages 34-36. [B] Email from Larry Lester; taken from his chronology of African American baseball, 8/17/2007. Chris Hauser, in an email on 9/26/2007, estimates that this notice appeared in the New York Anglo-African, and was referenced in Leslie Heaphy's Negro League Baseball.
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