In Gravesend on 15 June 1871

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Date of Game	Thursday, June 15, 1871
Location	Gravesend, England
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Description	David Block, "Pastime Lost" p. 238 mentions a "first known match [baseball game] played in England, when members of the Sheridan Base Ball Club of Ithaca, Michigan, who were serving as seamen aboard the American frigate USS Franklin, organized a game on June 15, 1871, while on shore leave in the town of Gravesend in Kent."
Sources	David Block, "Pastime Lost" p. 238
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Found by	David Block
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice
First in Location	England
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