Baseball
in the Garden of Eden
The
Secret History of the Early Game
John Thorn
Magnolia Ball Club, 1844
This engraved ticket
to an 1844 soirée is the earliest known image of grown men playing baseball. It
depicts the Magnolia Ball Club—a workingman’s aggregation—in action at the
Elysian Fields of Hoboken. The Colonnade Hotel is at right.
