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"The Best Played Game on Record"
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, USA |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | Due to the fine standard of play and the unusually low score (4-2), the Cincinnati Red Stockings' win over the Mutual in Brooklyn on June 15, 1869 in Brooklyn was hailed as the best game ever played. |
| Sources | Greg Rhodes, in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 63-64. |
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1869.1 "The Best Played Game on Record""
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