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Widespread
popularity of Baseball, however, did not come about
until the mid-19th century, much in part due to a group
of young professionals whp began meeting regularly to
play baseball on a field at 47th Avenue and 27th Street
in Manhattan in 1842. Three years later the Knickerbocker
Base Ball Club was formed. On October 7th of 1842 the
members of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club took part
in the first recorded game in history at Elysian Fields
in Hobken, New Jersey.
As
a result of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club new clubs
in and around New York City began to form. In 1857,
22 clubs met and formed the National Association of
Baseball Players and set the rules by which the Associations
players would play the game by, which became Baseball's
first formal rules.
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