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...all games such as cricket and town ball, which featured 360 degree fields. In fact this has been given as one reason early NYC baseball clubs played thei ...question is: was Manhattan Island really devoid of open space for baseball in the 1840s and 1850s? Or was it instead because the open space was so far no

...ntroduction on the current knowledge about the Elysian Fields and its role in base ball history.  ''' Available Playing Space in the 1840s and 1850s'''

...of nine players on a side, and of only five innings.  Other players joined in as some left, and more innings were played, but it was only a regular game ...(<i>Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times:</i> “Considerable interest was manifested in this trial, and a very fair audience gathered upon the grounds to witness i

...s)</p> <p>(<i>New York Clipper:</i> “Our Albany friends have ‘set the ball in motion.’  A return match … came off a week or two since …”)</p> | <p>(1) “Game of Base Ball in Albany,” <i>New York Clipper,</i> vol. 5, no. 7 (6 Jun 1857), p. 54, col.

...o Invented Baseball,</i> pp. 72-73</p> <p>(3) Zoss and Bowman, <i>Diamonds in the Rough,</i> p. 57</p> ...t Club. The New Yorkers
were singularly unfortunate in scoring but one run in their
three innings. Brooklyn scored 22 and of course came off
winners.