What is often referred to as the first recorded game played under the Knickerbocker Rules (now believed to be yet another intrasquad game), took place on June 19, 1846, when the Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club (aka “the New York Nine”) 23–1 in four innings. Elysian Fields First Game
Continue reading →The “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams, which recently sold for a record $3,263,246, arrived at the Oregon Historical Society this week. To find out more about the arrival of these historic documents and see photos of that exciting moment, read the article from the The Oregonian (see link below). Read “Hallowed baseball documents arrive safe at (temporary) home: the Oregon Historical Society”. The ‘Laws’ will make their public debut at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland next month and will be exhibited from July 1 to October 9. The papers are first being exhibited in Portland because the new owner, who … Continue reading →
The “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams, which recently sold for a record $3,263,246, will make its public debut at the Oregon Historical Society next month. The artifacts will be exhibited in Portland from July 1 to October 9. The papers are first being exhibited in Portland because the new owner, who chooses to remain anonymous, is a “friend of the historical society.” The documents “thoroughly change the early history of baseball,” the historical society states. The 1857 documents are the “first written-down rules of what became the modern game,” Oregon Historical Society Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk told The … Continue reading →