Early baseball in South Africa/Game 1

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Location	South Africa
City	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Site	Wanderers Grounds
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Non-locals

"The first baseball game in Africa was played between between American diggers and engineers at the famous Wanderers grounds in Johannesburg, before a mystified audience."

Eric Rosenthal, Stars and Stripes in Africa (Pubr?, 1968), page 181. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, February 2010. The date is excluded from the available snippet.