Early baseball in Taiwan/Game 1
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Location | Taiwan |
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Year | 1910 |
City | Tainan |
Country | Taiwan |
Was NY rules baseball | Likely |
Played by | Non-locals |
"Taiwan's adopted national sport is . . . a strictly Japanese phenomenon in both flavor and historical development . . . . During the Japanese occupation at the beginnings of twentieth century, baseball was a game taught exclusively to Japanese immigrant children. . . . Postal workers and army personnel established the first adult teams in the southern outpost of Tainan in 1910."
Peter C. Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe (Greenwood, 2005), pages 365-366.