Early baseball in Georgia/Game 4

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Location	Georgia
Year	1866
Month	5
Date	12
City	Atlanta
State	Georgia
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Locals
Team 1	Atlanta BBC
Team 2	Gate City BBC
Team 1 Score	29
Team 2 Score	127
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The first organized baseball game played in Atlanta took place May 12, 1866, in a field on Hunter Street west of Oakland Cemetery. The Atlanta Base Ball Club lost to a newly formed challenger, the Gate City Base Ball Club, 127 to 29.[Franklin Garrett, Atlanta and Its Environs (1954), pp. 725-727]

Sources

Franklin Garrett, Atlanta and Its Environs (1954), pp. 725-727