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Date of Game Saturday, November 10, 1888
Location Wellington, New Zealand
Field Newtown Park
Home Team  Add Club Page Wellington Base Ball Club
Away Team  Add Club Page Hicks-Sawyer Minstrel Co.
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Description

Describing Albert Spalding's "Australian baseball tour of 1888, Joe Clark writes: "The tour's first game outside the United States was in Auckland in 10 December. Only weeks before, in Wellington, the first baseball game had been played in New Zealand by the visiting Hicks-Sawyer Minstrel Company." No source is provided.

Joe Clark, A History of Australian Baseball (U Nebraska Press, 2003), page 10.

This game was played Nov. 11th at Newtown Park, a rugby venue, by the Minstrel Club and picked players from Wellington. Evening Post, Nov. 8, 1888

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Evening Post, Nov. 8, 1888

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Evening Post Nov. 8, 1888
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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Wellington, New Zealand
Players Locality Non-local
Entry Origin Sabrpedia



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