First Inter-Racial Game

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Date	Friday, September 3, 1869
Location	Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Description	The game between the Olympic and Pythian Clubs of Philadelphia on Sep. 3, 1869, is the first known interracial game.
Sources	Jerrold Casway, "Inter-racial Baseball-- the Pythians vs. the Olympics", in Inventing Baseball: The 100 Greatest Games of the 19th Century (SABR, 2013), pp. 68-70
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Submitted by	Larry McCray
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