Baseball

BASEBALL was probably brought to BC by California prospectors during the 1858 GOLD RUSH. The earliest reported game took place in NEW WESTMINSTER in 1862, but VICTORIA emerged as the hotbed of the game. One of the earliest organized teams was the Victoria Olympics, later the Amity Base Ball Club, which beat Seattle for the Pacific Northwest Championship in 1885. With the arrival of the transcontinental railway in the 1880s, teams appeared in the construction camps and rail towns of the...

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