Early baseball in Canada/Club 2
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Location | Canada |
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Year | 1859 |
City | Toronto |
State | ON |
Country | Canada |
Nickname | Young Canadian |
Found by | Larry McCray |
"In 1959 the Hamilton Young American and the Toronto Young Canadian baseball clubs competed in Canada's first intercommunity baseball game using the New York rules."
D. Flaherty and F. Manning, The Beaver Bites Back? American Popular Culture in Canada (McGill-Queens Press, 1993), page 155.
Query: Can we find a primary source for this game?