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The sport of baseball, long played on Southern Field adjacent to the Southern State Parkway, has a long and storied history in New York City. In 1847, Alexander J. Cartwright and members of the New York Knickerbocker Club drafted a set of rules for the “New York game” of baseball, calling for a diamond shaped infield with ninety-foot base paths and a pitchers mound forty-five feet from home plate. The distance to the pitchers’ mound was changed to sixty feet, six inches in 1893, and the rules became standard for baseball across the nation.
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