The First Game of Baseball was Played in...

[dannymac910]

My home town of Hoboken, NJ! Just thought I'd show my city some love, as we should have an MLB team and the Hall of Fame.

http://www.hobokenbaseball.com/

On 19 June 1846, the first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.

In the Harper's Weekly of 15 October 1859, a spread was devoted to two games being played on Hoboken's Elysian Fields. Across the top was an image of a cricket match. Across the bottom was this image of a baseball game.

[TheNamelessPoet]

just remember the hall of fame has nothing DIRECTLY to do with MLB *wink* there are their own entity of whci I am a card carrying member and dont be hatin on abner!!!

[TheNamelessPoet]

btw any of you guys know some of the rules back then... guys made a living off this one.

when you hit a ball as long as it hit fair 1st even if it was 1" in front of the plate it was fair... even if it rolled straight foul

[reflections]

"On 3 August 1865, almost twenty years after that first game, 20,000 people attended the rain-shortened 5 inning championship game between the Mutual Club of Manhattan and the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn on the same spot. The Atlantics won 13-12, and the event was depicted on a Currier & Ives print in 1866."

20K in attendance? In 1865.
More than the attendance for Expos games

[dickay]

btw any of you guys know some of the rules back then... guys made a living off this one.

when you hit a ball as long as it hit fair 1st even if it was 1" in front of the plate it was fair... even if it rolled straight foul

I was at the baseball HOF recently and some of the rules were unique. I espeically recall the first games not having a set amount of innings, it was the first team to get to 22 runs or something like that was declared the winner.

[oriole^]

Y'know, I'm gonna give Danny his props, here...Hoboken wouldn't be a bad place for a MLB team...!

[dannymac910]

y'know, i'm gonna give danny his props, here...hoboken wouldn't be a bad place for a mlb team...!

sweeeeeet!

[OregonDuck1989]

Hoboken Hobos?

[dannymac910]

Hoboken Redwings!!! LOL that's our high school team name. I always had RiverSharks stuck in my hed. I don't know why. Hoboken RiverSharks.

[TheNamelessPoet]

I bought a book years ago about pre1900 baseball.. It is FACINATING. LOL i started reading it when I found out that My Braves were the tost of the town then lol

[oriole^]

I bought a book years ago about pre1900 baseball.. It is FACINATING. LOL i started reading it when I found out that My Braves were the tost of the town then lol

I can recommend Where They Ain't by Burt Solomon. It's the story of the 1890s Baltimore Orioles, which was one of baseball's most important and innovative teams of the time. An excellent read. It's the source of the quote in my .sig below.