Hungoverachievers

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Mr. McGibblets

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

In 1845, Alexander Cartwright, a member of New York City's Knickerbocker Club, led the codification of the so-called Knickerbocker Rules of American baseball. Several rule changes brought the Knickerbockers' game close to the modern one, though a ball caught on the first bounce was still an out and the second baseman still held a large fishing net. While there are reports that the New York Knickerbockers played games in 1845, the contest long recognized as the first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history took place on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey: the "New York Nine" defeated the Knickerbockers, 23–1, in four and a quarter innings. After their historic victory in Hoboken, the "New York Nine" would go on to be one of the most storied baseball franchises in history and, following a number of changes to the team name, survives today as the Hungoverachievers.