Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 17, 2008
Changing History

John Thorn pushes back the date of the first organized baseball game.

The current research of the exceptionally accomplished baseball writer and historian John Thorn, as presented this weekend to the annual Nine Conference in Tucson, Arizona, has discovered an earlier organized, recognizable game of baseball as having taken place in November of 1843, also at Elysian Fields, conducted by an entity called the New York Magnolia Ball Club.

That's three years earlier than the famous Knickerbockers game.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:10 AM | History | TrackBack (0)
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and Julio Franco led off for the Hoboken nine.

Posted by: rmt at March 17, 2008 09:47 AM
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