46 – Why Nine Players on Each Team?

46 – NY Knickerbockers 1847

Figure 1. Alexander Cartwright (middle, second row). The New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club, 1847. Only six members on the team—obviously before the invention of baseball.

Figure 1. Alexander Cartwright (middle, second row). The New York Knickerbockers Baseball Club, 1847. Only six members on the team—obviously before the invention of baseball.

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