Early baseball in Texas/Game 3

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Location	Texas
Year	1865
City	Galveston
State	Texas
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Non-locals
Team 1	Teams from the army garrison

Jesse Ziegler, Wave of the Gulf (San Antonio, 1938), p. 183 mentions a game played there in 1865, under the New York rules, between a “crack team of the different [federal army] regiments stationed there” This may have been the first actual game played in TX under the NY rules.

Sources

Jesse Ziegler, Wave of the Gulf (San Antonio, 1938), p. 183