View source for Georgia Minstrels music troupe v St. Kilda Baseball Club in June 1879

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|Name=Georgia Minstrels music troupe v St. Kilda Baseball Club in June 1879
|Coordinates=-37.864, 144.982
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
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|Type of Date=Month
|Date=1879/06/01
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|Country=Australia
|State=Victoria
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|City=St. Kilda
|Field=St. Kilda Cricket grounds
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|NY Rules=Yes
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|Home Team=Georgia Minstrels music troupe
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|Away Team=St. Kilda Baseball Club
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|Description=<p>"[in 1879] baseball games were organized in Melbourne when the St. Kilda Baseball Club wanted to give some competition to a touring American Negro music troupe, the Georgia Minstrels."</p>
<p>Joseph Clark, Australia: Baseball Down Under, in G. Gmelch, Baseball Without Borders (U Nebraska Press, 2006), page 291.</p>
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|Comment=<p>St. Kilda is a suburb of Melbourne.</p>
<p>This minstrel group is the Hicks (later, Hicks-Sawyer) "negro" minstrel troupe, which toured Australia and New Zealand in 1878-79 and 1888-89, and had its own baseball team. They played several games against the St. Kilda BBC, usually at the St. Kilda cricket grounds. See The Melbourne <em>Age</em>, June 14, 21, 23, 28, July 5, 28, 1879; St. Kilda <em>Telegraph</em>, July 26, 1879. The latter says that in a game the Saturday before, the result was a 37-37 tie. [ba]</p>
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|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
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|Entered by=Bruce Allardice
|First in Location=St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia
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|Players Locality=Local
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