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|Date | |Name=First Night Game Played Under Lights | ||
|Type of Date=Day | |||
|Date=1880/09/02 | |||
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|Country=United States | |||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Nantasket | |City=Nantasket | ||
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|Description=<p>From Oscar Eddleton's <a class="external text" title="http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights" href="http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights" rel="nofollow">"Under the Lights"</a>, published in the 1980 Baseball Research Journal:</p> | |||
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|Description=<p>From Oscar Eddleton's <a | <p>"[O]n Thursday, September 2, 1880, teams representing two of Boston's prominent department stores, Jordan Marsh and Company and R. H. White and Company, played a game of baseball at Nantasket Bay on an oceanside site near Hull, Massachusetts. The game, ostensible played for a $50 stake, ended in a 16-16 tie.</p> | ||
|Sources=< | <p>This game would have held no historic value and would long since have been forgotten had it not been for one unique feature. It was the first baseball game ever played at night "under the lights."</p> | ||
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<p>A fuller description of the game follows in the linked article.</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights, retrieved on 2010-03-08.</p> | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:55, 15 November 2020
Date | Thursday, September 2, 1880 |
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Location | Nantasket, MA, United States |
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Description | From Oscar Eddleton's "Under the Lights", published in the 1980 Baseball Research Journal:
A fuller description of the game follows in the linked article. |
Sources | http://research.sabr.org/journals/under-the-lights, retrieved on 2010-03-08. |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
Has Source On Hand | No |
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