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|Year=1869
|Year=1869
|Year Number=3
|Year Number=3
|Headline=First Inter-Racial Game
|Headline=Inter-Racial Game in Philadelphia
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=African Americans,  
|Tags=African Americans,  

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Inter-Racial Game in Philadelphia

Salience Noteworthy
Tags African Americans
City/State/Country: Philadelphia, PA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The game between the Olympic and Pythian Clubs of Philadelphia on Sep. 3, 1869, is the first known interracial game.

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Jerrold Casway, "Inter-racial Baseball-- the Pythians vs. the Olympics", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 68-70.

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In March 2019 we learned of an earlier inter-racial game game in Ohio:  see 1869.14.

 

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