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- | + | From Protoball Entry #1857.17 -- Base Ball in Melbourne? | |
- | + | Phil Lowry has information on a 3-inning game in Melbourne, Victoria on February 21 or 28, 1857. The score was 350 to 230, and rules called for a run to be counted each time a baserunner reached a new base.” Posting to 19CBB by Phil Lowry 11/1/2006. | |
- | + | An Australian history also refers to this match: "The first recorded baseball event in Australia was a series of three games between Collingwood and Richmond. The scores were astronomical, with Collingwood winning the second match 350-230! The early Australian baseball players were probably playing a variation of cricket, rounders, and the New York Game and possibly counting each base attained as a run." | |
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+ | Joe Clark, A History of Australian Baseball (U Nebraska Press, 2003), page 5. Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball communiity . . . that the first baseball played in Australiia was by Americans on hte gold fields of Ballarat in 1857 . . . . No ducumentation has ever been produced for a Ballarat gold fields game [page 5]." | ||
Protoball record 1857.7 from [http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project] | Protoball record 1857.7 from [http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project] | ||
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