Early baseball in Russia/Game 1
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Location | Russia |
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Year | 1933 |
City | Moscow |
Country | Russia |
Was NY rules baseball | Yes |
Played by | Non-locals |
Team 1 | Moscow Anglo-Americans side 1 |
Team 2 | Moscow Anglo-Americans side 1 |
"[F]or a brief time in the 1930s, it appears that baseball was going to take off in Soviet Russia. In the spring of 1933, American workers living in Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and Petrozvodsk organized games, A team dubbed the Moscow Anglo-Americans drew 25,000 spectators to an exhibition game at the city's famed Dynamo Stadium, according to the Moscow News."
Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 129.