Early baseball in Dominican Republic/Game 1
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| Location | Dominican Republic |
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| Year | 1890 |
| Country | Dominican Republic |
| Was NY rules baseball | Yes |
| Played by | Non-locals |
"Cubans brought the game of baseball to the Dominican Republic around 1890 [when] the slaveholding, sugarcane-growing class emigrated to the Dominican Republic [fleeing civil war at home]."
Alan Klein, Dominican Republic: Forging an International Industry, in G. Gmelch, Baseball Without Borders (U Nebraska Press, 2006), page 118.
