Congratulations baseball. You're 150 today.
The firat real baseball game was played on June 19, 1846 at the Elysian
(a-LEES-ien) Fields near (now in) Hoboken, NJ. Forget that Abner Doubleday
myth. This is the real story.
The New York Nickerbocker Base Ball Club, which devised the early rules,
played a local cricket team and lost 23-1.
Happy Birthday Baseball!!
HBC
DHCF (Die Hard Cubs Fan)
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