1846 NYK Season
No Champion Declared
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The Knickerbocker Rules Era (NYK)
1846 NYK Season Overview
23 September 1845 — formal organisation of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club or New York Knickerbockers, initiated by Alexander Joy Cartwright, including adoption of twenty rules. Fourteen of the club rules are the earliest known written rules for playing baseball
22 October 1845 — New York Morning News publishes the first known box score for a baseball game, played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey in Hoboken, New Jersey
19 June 1846 — first match certainly played under the Knickerbocker rules at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey.
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