Early baseball in California/Game 8

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	|NYBaseball=Yes		|NYBaseball=Yes
	|Locals=Locals		|Locals=Locals
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	|First=No		|First=No
	|Approved=Yes		|Approved=Yes
		+	|Pagetext=Bill Swank, Baseball in San Diego (Arcadia, 2005), page 11, says a man named Ullman organized two nines which on May 6, 1871 played a game "on the plaza in New Town" (now, Horton Plaza).
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-	"Baseball in San Diego: From the Plaza to the Padres, takes the reader on a seven-decade journey from Horton Plaza, the site of San Diego's first base ball game in 1871, to lower Broadway . . . ."
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-	Synopsis verebage for Bill Swank, Baseball in San Diego (Arcadia, 2005).  Query: can we find details and documentation of this game in the book itself?

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Location	California
Year	1871
Month	5
Date	6
City	San Diego
State	CA
Country	US
Site	"the Plaza in New Town"
Modern address	Horton Plaza
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Locals
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Bill Swank, Baseball in San Diego (Arcadia, 2005), page 11, says a man named Ullman organized two nines which on May 6, 1871 played a game "on the plaza in New Town" (now, Horton Plaza).

Sources

Bill Swank, Baseball in San Diego (Arcadia, 2005).