Early baseball in Taiwan/Game 4
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Location | Taiwan |
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Year | 1910 |
City | (Southern Taiwan) |
Country | Taiwan |
Was NY rules baseball | Likely |
Played by | Unknown |
"Initially played by colonial bureaucrats , bankers, and their sons on Taihoku (Taibei), baseball spread to southern Taiwan by 1910
Andrew Morris, Taiwan: Baseball, Colonialism, and Nationalism, in G. Gmelch, ed., Baseball Without Borders (U Nebraska Press, 2006), page 66. Morris does not cite a source for the c1897 date.