Early baseball in Croatia/Game 1
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| Location | Croatia |
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| Year | 1973 |
| Note on date | Possibly 1974. |
| City | Split |
| Country | Croatia |
| Was NY rules baseball | Yes |
| Played by | Locals |
"In 1973, four clubs were established in the Croatian coastal town of Split due to 'intense contact with . . . Italian clubs,' wrote Roger C. Panaye."
Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 187. Chetwynd here references Roger C. Panaye, European Amateur Baseball: 25 Years. He cites another source as claiming that the first Split club, Nada, formed in 1974.
Split is about 150 miles W of Sarajevo on the Adriatic.
