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Latest revision as of 12:03, 10 April 2024

Date	Friday, September 3, 1869
Location	Philadelphia, PA, United States
Modern Address
Description	The game between the Olympic and Pythian Clubs of Philadelphia on Sep. 3, 1869, is the first known interracial game.
Sources	Jerrold Casway, "Inter-racial Baseball-- the Pythians vs. the Olympics", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 68-70
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Has Source On Hand	No
Comment	Not the first. See Cadiz, Ohio, 1867 game, for an earlier Black-White contest. The first true interracial game was in Hawaii in 1866, between a team of Polynesian-Hawaiians and a team of Caucasian-Hawaiians. [ba]
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Submitted by	Larry McCray
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 |Date=1869/09/03
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 |Description=<p><span>The game between the Olympic and Pythian Clubs of Philadelphia on Sep. 3, 1869, is the first known interracial game.</span></p>
 |Sources=<p><span>Jerrold Casway, "Inter-racial Baseball-- the Pythians vs. the Olympics", in&nbsp;</span><em>Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century</em><span>&nbsp;(SABR, 2013), pp. 68-70</span></p>
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 |Has Source On Hand=No
-|Comment=<p>Not the first. See Cadiz, Ohio, 1867 game, [ba]</p>
+|Comment=<p>Not the first. See Cadiz, Ohio, 1867 game, for an earlier Black-White contest. The first true interracial game was in Hawaii in 1866, between a team of Polynesian-Hawaiians and a team of Caucasian-Hawaiians. [ba]</p>
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 |Reviewed=Yes
 |Submitted by=Larry McCray
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