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"The Best Played Game on Record"

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City/State/Country: Brooklyn, NY, USA
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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.

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Rhodes, Greg, in Felber, Bill, Ed., Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (2013), pp. 63-64.

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