This Week we cover August 26 – Sept 1 . . . We are going to talk Tom Yawkey, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Bagwell, The First Televised Game, Rob Dibble, The Rat and Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. TRIVIA – Who was the first black/African American player in Major League Baseball History? On August 26, 1939…
Alexander Cartwright Essentials Born: April 17, 1820 in New York, NY USA Died: July 12, 1892 in Honolulu, HI USA Hall of Fame: Inducted as a Pioneer/Executive in 1938 by Centennial Full Name: Alexander Joy Cartwright Alexander Joy Cartwright was born in New York City on April 17, 1820. He left school at the age…
1956 – In New Jersey, the city of Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring the achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Fields in Jersey City.
At Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, NBC televises the first major league game in history on experimental station W2XBS, covering a doubleheader split in which the Reds win the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers take the nightcap, 6-1. The network employs two cameras, one behind home plate, showing a wide view of the field, and the other on the third base line to capture the plays at first base.
On June 19, 1846 At the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, Alexander Cartwright’s New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine play the very first organized baseball game. The contest is proclaimed to be the very first ever game played in public using Cartwright’s rules. New York Ball Club defeats the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, 23 – 1 (some sources…
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 of his fellow New York Knickerbockers.