Op 19 juni 1846 werd de eerste honkbalwedstrijd gespeeld in Hoboken, New Jersey, under Alexander Joy Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. Of course no pictures were taken. However, in the Harper’s Weekly of 15 October 1859, a spread was devoted to two games being played on Hoboken’s Elysian Fields. Across the top was an image of a cricket match. Across the bottom was this (bovenstaand) image of a baseball game.

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