See a vintage baseball game this Saturday!

It’s been 173 years since Davis from the NY Knickerbockers was fined 6 cents for swearing at the first match game of Base Ball played at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken. They played a few “warm up” matches in the fall of 1845, testing out their new rules.  But it was June 19, 1846, when they finally decided to officially keep score.  It was a lopsided, rain-shortened match. The New Yorks defeated the New York Knickerbockers 23 – 1.  Baseball was born!

On Saturday June 22, the Hoboken Base Ball Club will play the New Brunswick Liberty Base Ball Club using rules from 1864.   No gloves, no batting helmets, no catchers equipment.   Game will be played at 1PM at Dobbelaar Field at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken.

After game celebration will be at the Ferryman on First pub on first and Bloomfield in Hoboken, NJ.