In 1845, the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York" on June 3, 1851 on the same Elysian Fields. 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. You can find out the game's schedule by clicking on MLB.com Multimedia Guide. From this small beginning, the great game of baseball has developed into the huge game it is today. He was an eyewitness to the evolution, having seen rounders played as a boy in England, and rounders, town ball and baseball in this country. The New York Nine - was the opposing team and they beat the Knicks 23-1 in four innings. When the games are finished you could click on the Archive icon right beside the 400k link and this will give you options of media player to start the video broadcast. No professional organization was to appear for twenty-five more years. The Club immediately began drawing up a set of standard rules and making plans for a more satisfactory playing field. Henry Chadwick, called the father of baseball, its first writer and the inventor of the box score, claimed that American baseball was positively descended from the British game of rounders, which became "town ball" in this country, then baseball. So depressed were the Knickerbockers that they played no more inter-city games
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