Early baseball in Greece/Game 1

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Tom Mazarakis's 27-page The History of Baseball in Greece offers a comprehensive account of the sparse early days. American military personnel at the U.S. Air Force base at Hellenikon, near Glyfadas, played on two softball fields for years before Greeks started competing in the early 1970s . . . .  By 1972 four Little League teams were playing on the two baseball fields."
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"The U.S. military built two fields on the U.S. Air Force base at Hellenikon, near Glyfadas . . . .  there were no [local] Greeks who participated in the sport until around 1970."
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Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 203.
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Tom Mazarakis, The History of Baseball in Greece, page 7.

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Location Greece
Year 1970
Note on date "Around 1970"
City Hellenikon
Country Greece
Was NY rules baseball Yes
Played by Non-locals




"The U.S. military built two fields on the U.S. Air Force base at Hellenikon, near Glyfadas . . . . there were no [local] Greeks who participated in the sport until around 1970."

Tom Mazarakis, The History of Baseball in Greece, page 7.

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