Hansong YMCA Team Club of Seoul

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Nick Name	Hansong YMCA Team
Earliest Known Date	1905
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Location	Seoul, Korea
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Description	Baseball was taken to Korea by Phillip Loring Gillett, who was general secretary of the YMCA's International Committee for Korea. He is credited with organizing the first baseball team at the Hansong YMCA in Seoul in 1905. Joseph A. Reaves, Korea: Straw Sandals and Strong Arms, in George Gmelch, ed., Baseball Without Borders (U Nebraska Press, 2006), pages 92-93.
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Comment	By 1920 there was a Korea baseball championship. See www.projectcobb.org.uk Edit with form to add a comment
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