Nursery Office

Historical marker location:

668 Mount Hope Avenue, Rochester, New York

( Marker is on Mount Hope Avenue (New York State Route 15) 0.1 miles north of McLean Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1959

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.