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"The Elysian Fields"
On June 19, 1846, just across the river from Manhattan, at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, the first baseball game ever played between two organized teams took place. Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbocker club took on a team called the New York Nine... the game, which was played under Cartwright's rules, lasted four innings and Cartwright's team lost by the score of 23 to 1... with Cartwright umpiring the game!
Many baseball historians point to this eventful day, as The Day Baseball Was Born. Young Alexander Cartwright and his Knickerbocker club had brought about a whole new era in baseball. In the following two and a half decades the New York Game would replace all other forms of baseball that were being played in North America.
The sport even attracted the Young Ladies!
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was still not interested.
Just not a part of Baseball.
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