On June 4, 1838, a year before Abner Doubleday was recognized with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York, two teams from Oxford and Zorra townships met in Beachville, Ontario in what is now known as the first documented game in North American history.
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While living in Denver, Colorado, he wrote of his recollections that the match was played on a square field in a pasture.
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