The 1857 baseball convention was a meeting of members from 16 New York City-area baseball clubs that took place over multiple sessions in early 1857. It...

leading American baseball club almost throughout its 20-year history. It was established during 1857, the year of the first baseball convention, just too late...

first organization governing American baseball (spelled as two words in the 19th century). The first convention of 16 New York City area clubs was held...

1857 in sports describes the year's events in world sport. National championship National Association of Base Ball Players champion – Brooklyn Atlantics...

although it came to nothing. However, in 1857 sixteen clubs from New York and environs sent delegates to a convention that standardized the rules, essentially...

Major League Baseball (MLB), the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning...

Baseball". March 21, 2016. "Why Is There a Dirt Strip Between Home Plate & the Pitcher's Mound?". SportsRec. Retrieved 2020-09-08. "1857 Convention Rules...

father of baseball", though they were actually written by William R. Wheaton and William H. Tucker, of the New York Knickerbockers club. In 1857, under the...

inter-club Convention of 1857, eight years after Cartwright had left New York).[citation needed] The first clearly documented match between two baseball clubs...

participants in the 1857 convention, all from modern New York City. There the pioneer New York Knickerbockers essentially transferred baseball governance to...