CAUGHT ON FILM

By Craig Muder

In 1915, watching baseball footage in a movie theater would not have been a novelty in the United States.

But for theater-goers in any other country around the globe in 1915, baseball at the movies would be virtually unknown.

Maybe that’s why some Dutch newsreel footage – recently discovered through pure chance – features, among other images, a baseball game between Canadian soldiers and Americans living in London played at the historic home of cricket: Lord’s Cricket Ground in England.

It is believed to be some of the earliest known footage of baseball being played on foreign soil.

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