In Dhahran in 1946

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Date of Game 1946
Location Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Description

An Aramco company newsletter reported baseball and softball played there in 1946.

Stars and Stripes newspaper, Feb. 21, 1948, with the headline "Colony in the Desert," reports that American employees of Aramco Oil play baseball and golf in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

An American colony had worked here since the late 1930s.

Sources

Aramco's Sun and Flare, June 7, 1946; Stars and Stripes newspaper, Feb. 21, 1948

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Found by Bruce Allardice
Entered by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Dhahran, Saudi Arabia



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