Early baseball in Greece/Game 1

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		+	|Pagetext="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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		+	Tom Mazarakis, The History of Baseball in Greece, page 7.
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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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-	Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 203.

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Location	Greece
Year	1970
Note on date	"Around 1970"
City	Hellinikon
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.