First official game of baseball was played in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1846 and the losing team scored one run

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And they say baseball has always been a thrilling, high-scoring spectacle. The New York Nine faced off against the Knickerbockers at Elysian Fields in a game that lasted exactly four innings. The Nine humiliated the Knickerbockers with a brutal score of 23 to 1. To make matters worse, Alexander Cartwright, the guy who supposedly wrote the rules of the game, was playing for the losing team, proving you can invent a sport and still be remarkably terrible at it.