Naetzker Garden

Historical marker location:

338 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, New York

( Marker is on Central Avenue north of East 4th Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1999

The first-ever recorded baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, but the modern rules of the game were established in New York City in 1845 by the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club.