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100 Years of Baseball in Saratoga County

The history of baseball in Saratoga County mirrors the development of the game elsewhere in the northeastern United States. Although baseball was played in America in the late eighteenth century, it was not until the mid-1840s that it evolved into a game played mainly by adult men. In 1845, the New York Knickerbocker Club’s rules for the game of baseball became widely accepted. By the 1850s, men’s baseball clubs were being organized all over the northern and Midwestern states. Saratoga County was no exception.