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1866.7 Finally, Substitutes Make the Box Score
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The box score of a game between the Richmond and Ashby Clubs of Richmond, VA, on September 4, 1866, and reported in the Richmond Daily Dispatch of September 5 is the first known to have listed substitutes. Both were injury replacements, the only circumstance for which substitutes were then permitted.
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The box score was accessed through genealogybank.com
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1866