Early baseball in Taiwan/Game 2
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Location | Taiwan |
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Year | 1921 |
City | Hualien |
Country | Taiwan |
Was NY rules baseball | Likely |
Played by | Locals |
"The year 1921 would . . . mark a true birth of the Japanese-American sport as a native game with something of visible local traditions. Hualien resident Chia-hsing Lin spotted and organized enthusiastic youngsters playing with only sticks and rocks, and inside a year he had shaped them into a proficient technical school squad."
Peter C. Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe (Greenwood, 2005), page 366.