Early baseball in Canada/Club 1
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Location | Canada |
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Year | 1859 |
City | Hamilton |
State | ON |
Country | Canada |
Nickname | Young American |
Found by | Larry McCray |
"In 1959 the Hamilton Young American and the Toronto Young Canadian baseball clubs competed in Canada's first intercommunity baseball game using the New York rules."
In 1860, a Buffalo paper wrote that the Hamilton Club was the first in the Canada to adopt Association rules. Buffalo Daily Courier, August 29,1860.
D. Flaherty and F. Manning, The Beaver Bites Back? American Popular Culture in Canada (McGill-Queens Press, 1993), page 155.
Query: Can we find the original source for this cite?