Early baseball in Taiwan/Game 2

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Location Taiwan
Year 1921
City Hualien
Country Taiwan
Was NY rules baseball Likely
Played by Locals




"The year 1921 would . . . mark a true birth of the Japanese-American sport as a native game with something of visible local traditions. Hualien resident Chia-hsing Lin spotted and organized enthusiastic youngsters playing with only sticks and rocks, and inside a year he had shaped them into a proficient technical school squad."

Peter C. Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe (Greenwood, 2005), page 366.

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