The following are the baseball events of the years 1845 through 1868 throughout the world.
Part of the History of baseball series.  The baseball team "Champions of America", 1865
[edit] Champions [edit] Events - September 10, 1845 - A baseball game is played that is described the following day in the New York Morning News.[1]
- September 23, 1845 - The New York Knickerbockers draw up the Knickerbocker Rules which are written down by Alexander Cartwright.[2]
- October 22, 1845 - The first known box score appears in the New York Morning News a month after the first set of rules are written by Alexander Cartwright and some his fellow New York Knickerbockers.
- June 19, 1846 - The New York Knickerbockers led by Alexander Cartwright played the New York Nine at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey.[3] The Knickerbockers lost to the New York Club with a score of 23 to 1 after four innings of play.
- 1854 - The Excelsior of Brooklyn team is formed.
- 1855 - The Brooklyn Atlantics and Eckford of Brooklyn teams are formed.
- 1857 - The National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) is formed in meetings of sixteen New York area baseball clubs. The New York Mutuals and Newark Adriatics teams are formed.
- 1859 - The Potomac Club is formed in the summer and the Nationals teams is formed in November in Washington D.C.
- July 1, 1859 - Amherst College defeats Williams College 73-32 in a game played in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.[4]
- 1860 - The Philadelphia Athletics team is formed. The Newark Eurekas team starts playing other teams in the NABBP. The Union Club of Lansingburgh team is formed, which would later become the Troy Haymakers of the NABBP.
- February 22, 1860 First recorded baseball game played in San Francisco, California between the San Francisco Eagles and the San Francisco Red Rovers.[5]
- September 28, 1860 - The first baseball game between two named black teams was held at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Weeksville of New York beat the Colored Union Club 11–0.pp
- April 1862 - The Summit City Club is formed in Fort Wayne, Indiana (the club would reform as the Kekiongas in 1866).
- October 1865 - The Milwaukee Cream Citys team is formed.
- 1866 - The Fort Wayne Kekiongas team is reformed after the end of the Civil War.
- June 23, 1866 - The Cincinnati Base Ball Club is formed and plays four games.
- 1867 - The Cincinnati Base Ball Club plays in the NABBP.
- 1868 - The Rockford Forest Citys team is formed as an amateur club, but features future hall of fame players Albert Spalding and Ross Barnes.
[edit] Births [edit] pre-1845 [edit] 1845–1849 - 1850
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[edit] Deaths [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ "Baseball History: 19th Century Baseball: The Game". http://www.19cbaseball.com/game.html. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ "Knickerbocker Baseball Rules". http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rule11.shtml. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
- ^ O’Reilly, Charles (May 24, 2005). "Birthplace of Baseball Monument, Hoboken, N.J.". http://mysite.verizon.net/charliesballparks/stadiums/hoboken.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ^ "Cool Quiz! Trivia, Quizzes, Puzzles, Jokes, Useless Knowledge, FUN!: On The Way To Today... July 1st". http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/history/index.asp?hdate=07.01. Retrieved 2009-10-15.
- ^ Franks, Joel (2001). Whose baseball?: the national pastime and cultural diversity in California, 1859-1941. Scarecrow Press. p. 31. ISBN 081083927X, 9780810839274.
- Orem, Preston D. (1961). Baseball (1845-1881) From the Newspaper Accounts. Altadena, CA: Self-published. ISBN-Unknown
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