| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1861/00/00 | John A Lowell, an umpire and engraver who was once the president of the Boston Bowdoin Club, assembles a baseball team with students from various secondary schools in Boston. | |
| 1862/00/00 | A baseball club is started at Harvard College with help of the Boston Lowells. The team receives permission from the city if Cambridge to hold practices on the common, which they will used 1864. | Cambridge Common Historic District, Cambridge, MA |
| 1864/10/12 | The Harvard College varsity Base Ball Club is established. | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| 1877/04/12 | James Tyng, catcher for the Nine at Harvard College, puts on Thayer's rat-trap during a baseball game to protect his face from wild balls and bats. Tyng only makes two errors during the game. The catcher's mask will prove popular with other players. | |
| 1947/04/15 | At age 28, Jackie Robinson makes his Major League Baseball debut at Ebbets Field (razed) in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. A crowd of 26,623 spectators, more than 14,000 of whom are black, watch the game. |
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