Early baseball in Malta/Game 1

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Location Malta
Year 1890
Month 4
Date 29
Country Malta
Site Malta Polo Grounds
Was NY rules baseball Yes
Played by Non-locals
Team 1 Atlanta team
Team 2 Boston team

"Malta received its first taste of baseball on 29 April 1890 when teams from Boston and Atlanta played a 'hotly contested match on the Malta polo grounds,' according to Spalding's 1891 Official Base Ball Guide. "The [attending military ] Englishmen seemed very much mystified all throughout the game, but the ladies enjoyed it very much.'"

Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), pages 216-216.


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