Early baseball in Hawaii/Game 3

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Location	Hawaii
Year	1867
Month	7
Date	31
City	Honolulu
State	Hawaii
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Pacific BBC
Team 2	Unknown
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Hawaii Gazette, Aug. 7, 1867, mentions that during the Restoration Day (July 31st) Celebration in Honolulu, the Pacific BBC played a match game against an opponent whose name the newspaper garbled. The Honolulu Friend July 7, 1868, runs a letter from the BBC of the USS Mohongo thanking the Pacific BBC for allowing them to use their grounds.

Sources

Hawaii Gazette, Aug. 7, 1867