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Elysian Fields, 11th Street and Washington Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. Reached by PATH train to Hoboken and No. 163 NJ Transit Bus or No. 163 NJ Transit bus from Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The highly organized New York Knickerbockers played their first official match under the new rules for baseball devised by their manager, Alexander Joy Cartwright, on this spot, and endured baseball’s first upset, falling 23-1 to the New York Base Ball Club. For years, New York and New Jersey teams used the sitefor baseball games. A marker placed here in 1986 by the city and unveiled by Yankee Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto honors this landmark event in baseball history. 
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