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First Intercollegiate Baseball Game

When
1859-07-02
Where
Unspecified
Part of
First intercollegiate baseball game: Amherst vs Williams

Amherst and Williams Colleges played the first intercollegiate baseball game on July 2, 1859, as recorded in historical commemorations.

The game took place between Amherst and Williams Colleges. The date is specified as July 2, 1859, in the source text, contradicting the legacy hint of July 1. The location is not explicitly stated in the passages, though Wahconah Park is mentioned in the context of the 2009 commemoration.

Sources

  1. Williams College Wikipedia, revision of 2026-06-18

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.