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|Month=10
|Month=10
|Date=10
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|City=Topsham
 
|State=ME
|State=ME
|Country=US
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|NYBaseball=Likely
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|NYBaseball=Doubtful
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|Locals=Locals
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|Locals=Unknown
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|Team1=Bowdoin College Seniors
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|Team1=Bowdoin
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|Team2=Sunrise (Brunswick)
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|Team2=Sunrise
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|First=No
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|Approved=false
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|Approved=Yes
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|Pagetext=From Protoball Entry #1860.23 – NY Game Gets to ME
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"The first documented game of baseball to actually be played in Maine took place on October 10, 1860. . . . that October saw the Sunrise Club of Brunswick host the senior class team of Bowdoin [College] at the Topsham Fair Grounds."
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Anderson, Will, Was Baseball Really Invented in Maine? (Will Anderson, Publisher, Portland, 1992), page 1.  Anderson appears to rely on The Brunswick Telegraph, October 12, 1860.
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Topsham is about a mile NW of Brunswick ME, and Bowdoin College is just south of Brunswick.
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Open Issue:  Can we confirm that this game followed Association rules?
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== Sources ==
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* Protoball record 1860.23 from
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[http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project]

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