Early baseball in Australia/Game 5

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Location Australia
Year 1879
City Melbourne
Country Australia
Was NY rules baseball Yes
Played by Locals
Team 1 Georgia Minstrels music troupe
Team 2 St. Kilda Baseball Club




"[in 1879] baseball games were organized in Melbourne when the St. Kilda Baseball Club wanted to give some competition to a touring Ammerican Negro music troupe, the Georgia Minstrels."

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