Early baseball in Arizona/Game 1

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Location	Arizona
Year	1871
Month	10
Note on date	No later than late October
City	Camp Date Creek
State	Arizona
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Non-locals
First in Arizona	Yes
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The Prescott Weekly Arizona Miner, Oct. 28, 1871, reports that "a lively game of base ball" was "recently" played by the "boys in blue" at Camp Date Creek. That camp is/was 60 miles south of Prescott, AZ.

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Prescott Weekly Arizona Miner, Oct. 28, 1871