Early baseball in Florida/Game 1

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Location	Florida
Year	1867
Month	9
Date	13
City	St. Augustine
State	FL
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Non-locals
Team 1	Two nines of army soldiers

“The National Game. At St. Augustine between two nines of the 7th Infantry, played on Friday, September 13th." St. Augustine Examiner, September 21, 1867, cited in East-Florida Gazette, vol. 17 no. 1 (May 1997), p. 3.

Sources

St. Augustine Examiner, September 21, 1867, cited in East-Florida Gazette, vol. 17 no. 1 (May 1997), p. 3.