In Honolulu on 6 April 1860
| Date of Game | Friday, April 6, 1860 |
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, United States |
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| Description | The Polynesian, Honolulu, April 7, 1860: "Game of Ball. Quite an interesting game of ball came off yesterday afternoon on the Esplanade between the Punahou Boys and the Town Boys... The boys of a larger growth, among whom were some of the leading merchants and their clerks, had a game of good old-fashioned base ball on Sheriff Brown's premises, makai..." The first, Punahoa, game mentioned was probably wicket. The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 29, 1860: "Sport--A wicket club has been organized among the young men of this city and the students of Punahou College. They will play their first game on the Esplanade Friday, at 4 p.m. ..." "makai" is a Hawaiian word for "sea-ward side". Brown was sheriff of Honolulu in 1860. Punahou School was founded in 1841. Many of Hawaii's leading families sent their children there. The memoirs of Hawaiian pioneer William Castle (cited in Nucciarone, "Alexander Cartwright" p. 198) says that before he (Castle) introduced the new baseball game to Hawaii in 1866, the bat-ball games played there were "two o-cat" and "three o-cat". |
| Sources | The Polynesian [Honolulu], April 7, 1860 |
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| Found by | Bruce Allardice |
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