Early baseball in Poland/Game 1

From SABR Encyclopedia

Revision as of 16:01, 7 March 2010 (edit) Mccrayl01 (Talk | contribs) (Created page with '{{Origins-game |Location=Poland |Year=1919 |Month=5 |Date=30 |City=Modlin |Country=Ppland |NYBaseball=Yes |Locals=Non-locals |First=No |Approved=Yes }} Baseball made its Polish …') ← Older edit		Latest revision as of 15:10, 22 July 2010 (edit) (undo) GarverP01 (Talk | contribs) (fix typo in country name, move source to source box)
(One intermediate revision not shown)
Line 5:		Line 5:
	|Date=30		|Date=30
	|City=Modlin		|City=Modlin
-	|Country=Ppland	+	|Country=Poland
	|NYBaseball=Yes		|NYBaseball=Yes
	|Locals=Non-locals		|Locals=Non-locals
	|First=No		|First=No
	|Approved=Yes		|Approved=Yes
		+	|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."
		+	|Sources=Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 219.
	}}		}}
-
-	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."
-
-	Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 219.

---

Latest revision as of 15:10, 22 July 2010

SABR Origins Committee project on the
Spread of baseball
Key pages
Project home page Project map History of early baseball Research needs in the spread of baseball
Lists
Earliest games by state Earliest clubs by state All games  ·  All clubs Predecessor games Other firsts in baseball
Help
Researching early baseball Submitting research online

Spread of baseball: Home -> Poland -> Early baseball in Poland/Game 1

Location	Poland
Year	1919
Month	5
Date	30
City	Modlin
Country	Poland
Was NY rules baseball	Yes
Played by	Non-locals

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."

Sources

Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 219.