Early baseball in Greece/Game 1

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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.


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