Old Turnpike

Historical marker location:

Pine Plains, New York

( Marker is on Church Street (New York State Route 82) 0.2 miles east of Factory Road, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1940

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.