Both teams were tied at the end of the ninth, but the Knicks got two runs in the tenth to win the game 22-20. The findings of the committee - that baseball had been invented in 1839 by Abner Doubleday, a distinguished Civil War General, in Cooperstown, New York - were based wholly upon evidence submitted in a letter written by a man who stated that he had observed the actual invention when he was a schoolboy in Cooperstown. 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. Please be sure to fill up the necessary information before clicking continue and be aware also that passwords are not case insensitive. He had died years before the findings were published. The New York Nine - was the opposing team and they beat the Knicks 23-1 in four innings. Many accepted the findings of the committee - that baseball had been invented in 1839 by Abner Doubleday, a distinguished Civil War General, in Cooperstown, New York - were based wholly upon evidence submitted in a letter written by a man who stated that he had observed the actual invention when he was a schoolboy in Cooperstown. The First Game. - The Knickerbockers then issued challenges to take on all comers and the first baseball
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