Early baseball in New Jersey/Game 6

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Location	New Jersey
Year	1857
Month	9
Date	16
City	Bloomfield
State	NJ
Country	US
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Watsessing (Bloomfield)
Team 2	Empire 2nd Nine (Newark)
Team 1 Score	24
Team 2 Score	23
Length	8 innings

This game appears in the Protoball games Tabulation [NYC table] compiled by Craig Waff.

Coverage appeared in Porter's Spirit on September 26 and October 17, 1857.