Illustration: "The American National Game of Baseball -- Grand Match for the Championship," depiction of a baseball game at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ. One of the teams is probably the New York Knickerbockers. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, c. 1866. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

1st ‘Modern’ Baseball Club, N.Y. Knickerbockers, Founded in 1845

By Tony Pettinato on September 23, 2021

An article about the first “modern” baseball club, the New York Knickerbockers, being founded by Alexander Cartwright on 23 September 1845... (Read More)

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