In Havana in 1864
| Date of Game | 1864 |
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| Location | Havana, Cuba |
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| Description | "Baseball thus appeared in Cuba as early as the end of the U.S. Civil War and was thriving there only a few years later. Bats, balls, leather gloves, and rules for playing the new North American pastime were first carried to Havana by a pair of brothers, Nemesio and Ernesto Guillo . . . when the teenagers returned from a half-decade of high schooling at Alabama's Spring Hill College in 1864. Within mere days they were organizing rudimentary contests . . . in downtown Havana. Less than four years later, the Guillo brothers . . . had formed the Havana Base Ball Club." Peter C. Bjarkman, Diamonds Around the Globe (Greenwood Press, 2005), page 2. A key source for this story is an interview with one of the brothers in Diaro de la Marina, January 6, 1924. |
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| Comment | The Nashville Tennessean May 26, 1884, under the headline "Base Ball In Havana' seems to confirm this story, noting that base ball started in Havana about a quarter century ago. [ba] Edit with form to add a comment |
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| First in Location | Cuba |
| Players Locality | Local |
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