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The Elysian Fields was the site of countless baseball matches between amateur clubs based in New Jersey, Manhattan, and Brooklyn in the pre-professional era of the 1830s to the 1870s. Cricket matches were also popular at the grounds, and the New York Yacht Club established quarters at the Fields. [1]
Pages in category "Baseball players from Hoboken, New Jersey" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
What was long considered the first "officially recorded" baseball game was played on June 19, 1846 at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. The "Knickerbockers" and the "New York Nine" (also known as the New York Baseball Club, probably identical with the Gothams), played with Cartwright's twenty rules.
While there are reports that the New York Knickerbockers played games in 1845, the contest long recognized as the first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history took place on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey: the "New York Nine" defeated the Knickerbockers, 23–1, in four innings. [27]
Hoboken (/ ˈ h oʊ b oʊ k ən / HOH-boh-kən; [22] Unami: Hupokàn) [23] is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub.
In 2005 she attended a ceremony for Little League perfect game pitcher Kathleen Brownell who was being honored at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. [5] In October 2018, Pepe's hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, included her in a mural honoring Dorothea Lange and Dorothy McNeil, who were also born there. [6]
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Leo Patrick Kiely (November 30, 1929 – January 18, 1984) was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1951 and 1960 for the Boston Red Sox (1951, 1954–56, 1958–59) and Kansas City Athletics (1960). Listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m), 180 pounds (82 kg), Kiely batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Hoboken, New ...