Early baseball in Texas/Game 1

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Location	Texas
Year	1846
City	Corpus Christi vicinity
State	TX
Country
Modern address	Corpus Christi TX
Was NY rules baseball	Doubtful
Played by	Non-locals
Found by	Bruce Allardice

The first game played in Texas may have been played by soldiers of Zachary Taylor’s army, in camp near Corpus Christi, Texas during the Mexican War. See Cesar Gonzalez Gomez, “March, Conquest, and Play Ball: The Game in the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848,” Base Ball, Fall 2011, pp. 13-22.

Corpus Christi (1860 pop. about 150) is about 150 miles SE of San Antonio and on the Gulf of Mexico.

Sources

Cesar Gonzalez Gomez, “March, Conquest, and Play Ball: The Game in the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848,” Base Ball, Fall 2011, pp. 13-22.