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First Fly Baseball Game
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| City/State/Country: | Hoboken, NJ, USA |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
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| Text | On June 30, 1859, the Knickerbocker Club hosted the Excelsior club of South Brooklyn in the first interclub match played without the bound rule. The 1859 NABBP convention had okayed such games if agreed upon between the clubs. |
| Sources | New York Sunday Mercury, July 3, 1859 <address>#7 in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), p. 16-17</address> |
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1859.55 First Fly Baseball Game"
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