The first baseball game ever played
Hoboken, New Jersey
June 19. 1848
First Baseball Game in History
Cartwrights Hoboken Knickerbockers lost to the New York Nine; 21:1. The rules which Cartwright had invented a year before are still the basic rules of todays game.
90 feet between the bases, three strikes, three outs etc.
Also on this day: Lou Gehrig was born in New York City, 1903.
