Early baseball in China/Club 1

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Location	China
Year	1863
Note on date	No Later than 1863
City	Shanghai
Country	China
Nickname	Shangai Base Ball Club

There is "proof baseball existed in China as early as the 1860s. . . . The [Shanghai] rowing club was founded on May 1, 1863 . . . . And details about a loan the club took out that year make it clear that the Shanghai Base Ball Club was in existence already -- a full decade before the date generally accepted for the first baseball game in Japan."

Joseph A. Reaves, China: Silk Gowns and Gold Gloves, in G. Gmelch, Baseball Without Borders (U Nebraska Press, 2006), page 50.