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DescriptionBlack-and-white photograph of General Foods float at Eleventh and Hudson Streets in Hoboken Baseball Centennial Parade, Hoboken, June 19, 1946. 7" x 9" wide print. Press photo. Photographer not indicated; released by General Food Corporation. Reverse has mimeographed caption; dated file inkstamp: REF. DEPT. 6-28 '46 N.E.A. [Newspaper Editors Association.] Text on reverse; HOBOKEN HONORS 100 YEARS OF BASEBALL HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Hoboken paused for a baseball centennial celebration June 19, marking the first game of organized baseball reportedly played in this country. It was the 100th anniversary of the game in which the New York Nine trounced the Knickerbockers Club of New York, 23-1, in 1846. Field is now the site of the largest coffee plant in the world -- the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corporation. PHOTO GRATIS. .. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM: GENERAL FOODS CORPORATION PHOTO SHOWS: Huge General Foods float as it passed reviewing stand in background during baseball centennial ceremonies in Hoboken honoring 100 years of baseball. The largest coffee plant in the world, the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corporation, now occupies the site where the original game was played in 1846. ==== The view is southwest down looking down Hudson Street from Eleventh Street. Image detail right: reviewing stand where Mayor Bernard N. McFeely is seen in profile. Note small sign on rear of float: Float courtesy of R.H. Macy & Co.