The First Ever International ‘Base Ball’ Game
The original Home Run Baker: Ottawan Godfrey Phipps Baker and his wife Elizabeth. (Author’s collection) In a Niagara Frontier journal essay (Summer 1964), noted Buffalo historian Joseph Overfield described the first-ever international baseball match as being played between the Burlingtons of Hamilton C.W. (Canada West, or today’s Ontario), and the Queen Citys of Buffalo, […]