A game on 19 June 1846 was well documented. In that game the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club (Alexander Cartwright was a member) lost to the New York Nine by 23-1. Alexander Cartwright moved ...

Born in 1820, New Yorker Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. laid the first baseball diamond as it is used today. In 1842, he founded the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, which is said to be the first ...