Editing Early baseball in Poland/Game 1
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|Date=30 | |Date=30 | ||
|City=Modlin | |City=Modlin | ||
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|NYBaseball=Yes | |NYBaseball=Yes | ||
|Locals=Non-locals | |Locals=Non-locals | ||
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| - | |Pagetext=Baseball made its Polish debut on 30 May 1919 in a town near Warsaw called Modlin, according to a 2002 article in the Warsaw Voice. This matchup probably featured American or Canadian military personnel competing in a post-World War I contest. The occurrence raised little attention. . . . Poland played its own traditional bat-and-ball game . . . dating back centuries, and, by the 1920s the game of palant had a popular following." | + | |
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| + | Baseball made its Polish debut on 30 May 1919 in a town near Warsaw called Modlin, according to a 2002 article in the Warsaw Voice. This matchup probably featured American or Canadian military personnel competing in a post-World War I contest. The occurrence raised little attention. . . . Poland played its own traditional bat-and-ball game . . . dating back centuries, and, by the 1920s the game of palant had a popular following." | ||
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| + | Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 219. | ||
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