Relive History at Re-Creation of a 19th-Century Baseball Game

June 19, 2010

One of Hoboken’s “100 Firsts” is hosting the first officially recorded, organized baseball game played under Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr.’s rules, on June 19, 1846. According to historical records, the New York Nine defeated Cartwright’s Knickerbockers, 23 to 1, in four innings at Hoboken’s Elysian Fields, which were located near the Hudson River, about where the former Maxwell House Plant was located. The Museum is commemorating the event with a re-creation of a mid-19th century game by two teams of historic interpreters, on Saturday, June 19, at 1 p.m. at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Dobbelaar Baseball Field.