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Date of Game
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1919
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Location
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Talinn, Estonia
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Modern Address
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Field
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Home Team
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Away Team
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Score
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Game Number
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Innings
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9
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Number of Players
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Game Officials
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NY Rules
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Yes
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Description
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U.S. Army Lt. John Thors first introduced baseball to Estonia back in 1919. In his memoirs An American Epic (1961), former U.S. President Herbert Hoover writes: “The only bit of humor from the Baltic was provided by Lieutenant John Thors who had charge of child relief in Estonia. He reported that upon the arrival of our ship the Lake Dancey, the captain asked for a field for his crew to determine whether the sailors or the fire-men had a better baseball team. Thors had a field marked out and decided that he would charge the Estonians admission to this strange performance. He borrowed a band from the town and saw to it that full publicity appeared in the press. The sailors and firemen donated cigarettes to be sold for 1.50 marks a pack – say 25 cents – a reduction of about 80 per cent of the current price. The band, cigarettes, and baseball game proved a huge success. Lieutenant Thors counted up 3,200 marks for the Children's Relief.”
In August, 1923, the crew of the USS Pittsburgh even got a chance to play a game of baseball against a local Estonian team, defeating them by a score of 6 to 1.
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Sources
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Herbert Hoover, "An American Epic" (1961)
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Has Source On Hand
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Found by
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Bruce Allardice
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Entry Origin
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Entry Origin Url
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