In Vasteras in 1910

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Date of Game 1910
Location Vasteras, Sweden
NY Rules Likely
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[A] Sigfrid Edstrom, director of a Swedish electrical engineering company, "spent time studying in both Switzerland and the United States. There's little doubt that his time in America instilled a deep affection for that country's national pastime because in 1910 he made a serious play for baseball . . . [in] the town of Vasteras, located about 100 kilometers frm Stockholm. Edstrom helped set up a local team in Vasteras and, according to one source, provided rules and equipment for games in the capital of Stockholm."

[B]  "1910.  Vasteras Club Formed, later a club was formed in Stockholm, and another in Gothenburg."

 

Sources

[A] Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe (McFarland, 2008), page 144.

[B] Swedish Baseball History, Baseball Mercury, Issue 13 (England, August 1976, William Morgan, ed.), page 3.  Accessed 6/24/2013 at http://www.projectcobb.org.uk/materials.html.  

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First in Location Vasteras, Sweden
Players Locality Local
Entry Origin Sabrpedia



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