| First |
Date |
City |
State
|
| Diamonds are a Game's Best Friend
|
1834
|
Boston
|
MA
|
| First Known Use of the Term "Town Ball"
|
1834-06-14
|
Springfield
|
IL
|
| Olympics Specify Umpire
|
1837
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| Foul is Fair
|
1845-09-23
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Brooklyn 22, New York 1: The First-Ever "Modern" Interclub Match
|
1845-10-11
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| Knicks Play NYBBC in First Recorded Match Game
|
1846-06-19
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| Umpires 1, Players 0
|
1846-06-19
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Printing of Knickerbocker Rules
|
1848
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Reported Scholastic Cricket Clubs
|
1848
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| Knicks Sport First Uniform
|
1849-04-24
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| The Beginning of Match Play Among Organized Clubs
|
1851-06-03
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Interscholastic Ball Game
|
1853
|
Andover
|
MA
|
| The First Base Ball Reporters - Cauldwell, Bray, Chadwick
|
1853
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Base Ball Hits the Sports Pages? Sunday Mercury, Spirit of the Times Among First to Cover Game Regularly
|
1853
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Compensated Player
|
1854
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Finally, Cricket Played Here (by Aduls) Without English Immigrants!
|
1854-08
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Interclub Second Nine Play
|
1854-11
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Junior Base Ball Club Founded
|
1855
|
Newark
|
NJ
|
| First Publishing of Rules
|
1855-04-29
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Crowd Count
|
1855-09
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Designation of "Best" Club
|
1855-09-22
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Mention of Fastball Pitching
|
1855-09-22
|
Jersey City
|
NJ
|
| First Ball of the Base Ball Clubs Attracts 200 Couples
|
1856-01
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Recorded Base Stealing
|
1856-08-07
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Use of Two Catchers on One Team?
|
1856-08-30
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Scholastic Play under the Knick Rules
|
1856-11
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Published Use of "steal"
|
1857-02-07
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Baseball Attendance of a Thousand or More
|
1857-07-09
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Game Image
|
1857-09-12
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| The First Vintage Games?
|
1857-10
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Slide, Webber, Slide
|
1857-10-10
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Note of Catcher Playing Close to Batter
|
1857-12-26
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Backing Up Begins at Short
|
1857-12-26
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Prep School Interscholastic Play
|
1858
|
Bloomfield
|
NJ
|
| First Base Ball Sheet Music
|
1858
|
Buffalo
|
NY
|
| First Recorded College Game at Williams College
|
1858-05-29
|
Williamstown
|
MA
|
| First Admission Fee for Baseball
|
1858-07
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Complaint about Organized Baseball
|
1858-12-01
|
|
United States
|
| First African-American Games
|
1859
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Female Play of Modern Base Ball?
|
1859
|
Perth Amboy
|
NJ
|
| Proto-Sports Bar
|
1859
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Triple Play
|
1859-04-16
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First distance-estimated home run
|
1859-06-28
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Fly Baseball Game
|
1859-06-30
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Note of Pitcher Covering First
|
1859-06-30
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Reference to Change-of-Pace Pitching
|
1859-07-03
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Industrial Game Reported
|
1859-07-20
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| Canadian New York Rules Club Reported
|
1859-08-06
|
Toronto
|
Ontario
|
| First Recorded Hidden Ball Trick
|
1859-10
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Intercollegiate Game by Association Rules
|
1859-11-03
|
New York
|
NY
|
| Intercollegiate Game, Possibly the First Played by New York Rules
|
1859-11-03
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Statistical Fruit
|
1859-12-10
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Chadwick's Beadle's Appears, and Baseball Literature is Launched
|
1860
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Enclosed Ballpark
|
1860
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| Batting Cage Debuts
|
1860-04
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| You Take It - I've Got It
|
1860
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Recorded Pickoff of Runner
|
1860-05-20
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Tour Ever- Excelsiors Conduct Undefeated Western NY Road Trip.
|
1860-07
|
|
NY
|
| First International Game Played by New York Rules
|
1860-08
|
Clifton
|
Ontario
|
| First Known Shutout
|
1860-11-08
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| Shut Out Reported as the First Ever; Excelsiors 25, St. George Nine 0
|
1860-11-08
|
Hoboken
|
NJ
|
| First Game Slated for a Gold Mining Town
|
1860
|
Mariposa
|
CA
|
| First Game Played on Ice Skates
|
1860
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Mention of Hand Protection in Baseball
|
1860-12-25
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| First 6-4-3 Noted
|
1861-08-17
|
Newark
|
NJ
|
| First saloon established on a base ball ground
|
1862-05-15
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Note of Brushback Pitching
|
1863-10-17
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Traps
|
1864-06-25
|
Newark
|
NJ
|
| First Known Deliberate Bunts
|
1864-09-15
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Photo of Big-Time Ball Game
|
1865
|
Newburgh
|
NY
|
| First Known Integrated (Adult) Club Takes the Field
|
1865
|
Florence
|
MA
|
| Note: Clubs Need Two Pitchers
|
1865-06-10
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Baseball Tournaments
|
1865-07-04
|
Portland
|
ME
|
| First Post-Game Newspaper Interview?
|
1865-08-19
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| Baseball Players' Age and Weight Reported
|
1865-08-24
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| Baseball on the Stage
|
1865-09
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Barnstomers
|
1866
|
Dover
|
NJ
|
| First Known Table-top Base Ball Game
|
1866
|
|
United States
|
| First Interracial game
|
1866-07-04
|
Honolulu
|
HI
|
| First Reported use of Knickers During a Base Ball Match
|
1866-07-07
|
New Brunswick
|
NJ
|
| Twenty-Five Cent Admission Fees
|
1866-08
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Known Lady Umpire
|
1866-08-30
|
Morrisania
|
NY
|
| First Known Example of a Table-top Base Ball Game
|
1866-12-08
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Black-White Interracial Match Game
|
1867
|
Cadiz
|
OH
|
| Nationals Inaugurate Western Tours
|
1867
|
Washington
|
DC
|
| Signs Go Back To At Least 1867
|
1867
|
|
United States
|
| Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report
|
1867-06-06
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| Upset Gives Western Clubs First win vs. the East
|
1867-07-25
|
Rockford
|
IL
|
| First Ball Game in Rome
|
1868-05
|
Rome
|
Italy
|
| First Known Use of "Homer" to Reference a Home Run
|
1868-08-06
|
New York
|
NY
|
| First Known Female Base Ball Team in Tennessee
|
1868-11
|
Nashville
|
TN
|
| First Black-White Game
|
1869
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| Cincinnati Club Forms as First All-Professional Nine
|
1869
|
Cincinnati
|
OH
|
| First Inter-Racial Game
|
1869-09-03
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| First Use of Sptball
|
1869-10
|
Baltimore
|
MD
|
| Slugging Stat Arrives in Early Form
|
1869-12-04
|
NYC
|
NY
|
| First Pro Club in Chicago?
|
1870
|
Chicago
|
IL
|
| Cincinnati Club Introduces 50-cent Admission Fee
|
1870
|
Cincinnati
|
OH
|
| First Switch Hitter
|
1870-06-14
|
Brooklyn
|
NY
|
| First Known Interstate Challenge of a Men's Team by a Female Team
|
1871-08
|
Memphis
|
TN
|
| First mention of Negro Baseball in Arkansas
|
1873-08-08
|
Little Rock
|
AR
|
| First African-American MLB player
|
1879-06-21
|
Providence
|
Rhode Island
|
| First Night Game Played Under Lights
|
1880-09-02
|
Nantasket
|
MA
|
| First night game under lights in Arkansas
|
1894-07-13
|
Little Rock
|
AR
|
| First recorded game between two different non-white races
|
1905
|
|
CA
|
| First team of Japanese Immigrants to US
|
1919
|
Salt Lake City
|
UT
|
| First Colored World Series
|
1924-10-03
|
Philadelphia
|
PA
|
| "Sound" Baseball Played at Ohio School for the Blind
|
1939
|
Columbus
|
OH
|
| First Televised Baseball Game: Princeton 2, Columbia 1
|
1939-05-17
|
New York
|
NY
|
| First Major League Game Televised
|
1939-08-26
|
New York
|
NY
|
| First televised World Series
|
1949-10
|
New York
|
NY
|
| First Game at the North Pole
|
1960-08-25
|
|
North Pole
|
| First Games Played by Unsighted Players
|
1964
|
Colorado Springs
|
CO
|
| First Game On Both Starting Pitchers' Birthdays
|
2012-05-03
|
Cincinnati
|
OH
|
