Robert Jackson

Historical marker location:

1355 Wantagh Avenue, Wantagh, New York

( Marker is on Wantagh Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1935

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.