Early baseball in Ohio/Game 1

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Location	Ohio
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.”

Protoball record 1857.7 from Protoball project

Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 26. Porter’s Spirit of the Times, April 18, 1857. [Handwritten note]