Early baseball in Ohio/Game 1
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Location | Ohio |
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Year | 1857 |
City | Cleveland |
State | OH |
Country | US |
Was NY rules baseball | Unknown |
Played by | Locals |
“Base Ball at Cleveland -- This truly national game is daily played in the public square, and one of the city authorities decided that there was law against it.”
Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 26. Porter’s Spirit of the Times, April 18, 1857. [Handwritten note]