Early baseball in Bolivia/Game 1
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| Location | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1920 |
| City | La Paz |
| Country | Bolivia |
| Was NY rules baseball | Yes |
| Played by | Non-locals |
| Team 1 | American residents side 1 |
| Team 2 | American residents side 2 |
"On July 4, 1920, the first baseball game in Bolivia was played in La Paz between two teams picked from the American colony. A full outfit was later presented [by the Americans, one infers] to the soldiers of the local garrison in the hope that the natives would be aroused to take up the game"
Frank G. Carpenter, Lands of the Andes and the Desert (Pubr? 1924), page 212. Accessed in snippet view via Google Books search, February 2010.
