1845 To 1868 in Baseball - Events

Events

  • 1845 September 10 – A baseball game is played that is described the following day in the New York Morning News.
  • 1845 September 23 – The New York Knickerbockers draw up the Knickerbocker Rules which are written down by Alexander Cartwright.
  • 1845 October 22 – The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some of his fellow New York Knickerbockers.
  • 1846 June 19 – The New York Knickerbockers play the "New York Nine" at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey. The Knickerbockers lose to the New Yorks by a score of 23 to 1 in four innings of play.
  • 1854 – The Excelsior club established in Brooklyn.
  • 1855 – The Atlantic and Eckford clubs established in Brooklyn.
  • 1856 – The Union of Morrisania club established in the latter-day Bronx, New York.
  • 1857 – The National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) is formed in meetings of sixteen New York area baseball clubs. The New York Mutuals and Newark Adriatics teams are formed.
  • 1859 – The Potomac Club is formed in the summer and the National club in November in Washington, D.C.
  • 1859 July 1 – Amherst College defeats Williams College 73–32 in a game played in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
  • 1860 – The Philadelphia Athletics team is formed. The Newark Eurekas team starts playing other teams in the NABBP. The Union Club of Lansingburgh team is formed, which would later become the Troy Haymakers of the NABBP.
  • 1860 February 22 – First recorded baseball game played in San Francisco, California between the San Francisco Eagles and the San Francisco Red Rovers.
  • 1860 September 28 – The first baseball game reported between two named black teams. At Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, the Weeksville of New York beat the Colored Union Club 11–0.
  • 1862 April – The Summit City Club is formed in Fort Wayne, Indiana (the club would reform as the Kekiongas in 1866).
  • 1865 October – The Milwaukee Cream Citys team is formed.
  • 1866 – The Fort Wayne Kekiongas team is reformed after the end of the Civil War.
  • 1866–1868 – The Rockford Forest Citys feature future superstars Albert Spalding and Ross Barnes.
  • 1866 June 23 – The Cincinnati Base Ball Club is formed and plays four outside matches.
  • 1867 – The Cincinnati Base Ball Club plays in the NABBP.

Read more about this topic:  1845 To 1868 In Baseball

Famous quotes containing the word events:

    “Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)