From this small beginning, the great game of baseball has developed into the huge game it is today. You can find out the game's schedule by clicking on MLB.com Multimedia Guide. If you have any questions, suggestion or comments regarding the MLB.com's services or you have any general baseball inquiries, just feel free to visit their official information section. The First Game. - The Knickerbockers then issued challenges to take on all comers and the first baseball game ever played under organized rules took place on June 19, 1846, at Elysian Fields (near Hoboken), New Jersey. The Knickerbockers also established uniform rules which set the pattern for present-day ball. By the early 1840s, the baseball games played in this country had been pretty well standardized into "Town Ball," played East of New York, and "the New York Game," played, naturally, in New York. A. G. Spalding, founder of the famous sporting goods house, a fine pitcher himself, and publisher of the "Baseball Guide," claimed that such a theory was nonsense and that baseball was purely an American invention. In 1842, the New Yorkers drew up the first diagram of a baseball field and grown men began to take this boys' game seriously and to see in it possibilities for a great sport. They were alike in many respects but Town Ball was patterned more after the ancient rounders, while the New York Game seems to have been largely taken from cricket.
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: Home
Official site of the Baseball Hall of Fame presents the history of the sport with an online display of baseball artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia.
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