Early baseball in Australia/Game 2
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(Created page with '{{Origins-game |Location=Australia |Year=1857 |Month=2 |City=Melbourne |Country=Austalia |NYBaseball=Doubtful |Locals=Unknown |First=No |Approved=Yes }} From Protoball Entry #18…') |
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|Month=2 | |Month=2 | ||
|City=Melbourne | |City=Melbourne | ||
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|NYBaseball=Doubtful | |NYBaseball=Doubtful | ||
|Locals=Unknown | |Locals=Unknown | ||
| + | |Team1=Collingwood | ||
| + | |Team2=Richmond | ||
| + | |Score1=350 | ||
| + | |Score2=230 | ||
|First=No | |First=No | ||
|Approved=Yes | |Approved=Yes | ||
}} | }} | ||
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From Protoball Entry #1857.17 -- Base Ball in Melbourne? | From Protoball Entry #1857.17 -- Base Ball in Melbourne? | ||
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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." | 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." | ||
| - | Joe Clark, A History of Australian Baseball (U Nebraska Press, 2003), page 5. Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball | + | Joe Clark, A History of Australian Baseball (U Nebraska Press, 2003), page 5. Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball community . . . 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] | ||
Revision as of 02:20, 4 March 2010
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| Location | Australia |
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| Year | 1857 |
| Month | 2 |
| City | Melbourne |
| Country | Australia |
| Was NY rules baseball | Doubtful |
| Played by | Unknown |
| Team 1 | Collingwood |
| Team 2 | Richmond |
| Team 1 Score | 350 |
| Team 2 Score | 230 |
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."
Joe Clark, A History of Australian Baseball (U Nebraska Press, 2003), page 5. Clark then cites "a well-traveled myth in the American baseball community . . . 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 Protoball project
