Ambrose G. Bierce

Historical marker location:

518 W. Franklin Street, Elkhart, Indiana

( Marker is on W. Franklin Street, 0 miles west of S. 5th Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1998

The first professional baseball game in the United States was played in Indiana on May 4, 1871. The game was played in Fort Wayne between the Cleveland Forest Citys and the Fort Wayne Kekiongas.