Games described as forgotten typically earn that classification because they deserve to disappear; it’s a modifier historians employ to marginalize or dismiss a given event, often for dramatic effect. But this game is “forgotten” in a non-negotiable context. There’s almost no record of its existence. Fewer than five hundred people saw it happen. It was not televised and there’s no videotape. It wasn’t broadcast on the radio. No official box score was compiled (statistics were kept, but most have been lost over time). Only a couple of small-circulation newspapers made mention of what
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