Every baseball game is unique unto itself, a separate entity evolving from a common set of rules.
Some games are more unique than others.
One such game took place on Saipan, July 11, 1969. History had never seen a game quite like it, and the future never will. They were there to see the gold medal baseball game between Truk and Palau in the1969 Micronesian Olympics. That this particular baseball game even happened took a set of remarkable circumstances. Foremost was a four hundred year historical legacy of successive Spanish, German, Japanese and American political control connecting islands scattered across three thousand miles of open ocean, each group distinct in language and culture, with little reason and no need to associate with other island groups except for the convenience of a foreign power.