Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

On May 6, the Orioles played a 17-inning game against the Boston Red Sox, the first game since 1925 in which both teams used a position player as a pitcher.

Peppard played Thomas Banacek, a suave, Polish-American freelance investigator based in Boston, who solved seemingly impossible thefts ( see locked room mystery ).

Cleveland played their full schedule to July 19 followed by two games versus Boston in mid-August and disbanded at the end of the season.

The Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first modern World Series in 1903.

" No American League games were played on that day, and a group of All-Stars from the league's other teams gathered in Boston to play against Young and the Red Sox.

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

The first game was played April 20, 1912, with mayor John F. Fitzgerald throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating the New York Highlanders ( renamed the Yankees the next year ), 7-6 in 11 innings.

Between September – November 1863, Booth played a hectic schedule in the northeast, appearing in Boston, Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford, Connecticut.

The Twins and the Red Sox started the weekend tied for 1st place and played against each other in Boston for the final three games of the season.

The first regular season game in Target Field was played against the Boston Red Sox on April 12, 2010, with Mauer driving in two runs and going 3-for-5 to help the Twins defeat the Red Sox, 5 – 2.

Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a dramatic run in that ended in a Game Seven loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in against the Boston Red Sox that was cited in the Curse of the Bambino, and a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series which they lost in five games.

On January 26, 1989, Phish played the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

For their 1994 New Years Run, Phish played two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden and Boston Garden, which were their debuts at both venues.

A few days later a manager at a club in Boston was concerned that he looked ill, but Orbison played the show to another standing ovation.

The band played a series of sold-out concerts in Washington D. C., Atlantic City, Boston, and New York.

In March 2011, the Pogues played a six-city / ten-show sold out US tour titled " A Parting Glass with The Pogues " visiting Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington D. C., Boston, and New York ( in that order ), with only the last three cities getting more than one show.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

At the time the team played in Braves Field, the home field of the Boston Braves baseball team.

Matches were played in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.

* March 2 – The first NBA All-Star game was played in the Boston Garden.

* October 21 – 1975 World Series: The Cincinnati Reds are defeated by the Boston Red Sox in Game Six off Carlton Fisk's 12th-inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever played.

In Scorsese's The Departed he played the role of Billy Costigan, a state trooper working undercover in an Irish Mob in Boston.

Again, he played sporadically for them in 1918 before being traded to the Boston Braves on May 21, 1919, for Pat Ragan.

The paper grew to prominence throughout the 19th century, taking over other Boston area papers.

During the building boom of the 19th century in the eastern seaboard cities of Boston and New York City, for example, locally made bricks were often used in construction in preference to the brownstones of New Jersey and Connecticut for these reasons.

In the late 19th century, various schemes for annexing Cambridge itself to the City of Boston were pursued and rejected.

This cartoon was most likely drawn by Elkanah Tisdale, an early 19th century painter, designer, and engraver who was living in Boston at the time.

Some " Boston anarchists ", including Benjamin Tucker, identified themselves as " socialists ", which in the 19th century was often used in the sense of a commitment to improving conditions of the working class ( i. e. " the labor problem ").

Original Rogers Building ( MIT ), Back Bay, Boston, 19th century ( photo by E. L. Allen )

Clemens was drafted 19th overall by the Boston Red Sox in 1983 and quickly rose through the minor league system, making his major league debut on May 15,.

19th c., jutting into Boston Harbor

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned — a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths — but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century.

* Boston was the birthplace of the 19th Century author and poet Jean Ingelow

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Boston annexed several adjacent cities and towns including Hyde Park, Roxbury, West Roxbury, and Dorchester from Norfolk County and Charlestown and Brighton from Middlesex County, resulting in an enlargement of Suffolk County.

In the late 19th and early 20th century the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; the University of Pennsylvania ; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; the Brooklyn Institute of Fine Arts ; and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University also conducted

Up until the 19th century, the Boston Stump had the tallest roof of any building, religious or secular, in the world.

In the late part of the 19th century, the discovery of coal led to the development of the Brilliant Coal Company, which was located adjacent to the town of Boston.

By the late 19th century, however, rail connections to New York, Hartford, Pittsburgh and Boston gave visitors ready access to Norfolk's cool summers and clean air, and Norfolk soon evolved into a fashionable resort as its small industry declined.

Newport became a center of commerce in the early 19th century, as Conestoga wagons transported farm products from as far away as Lancaster County, Pennsylvania to Newport's docks on the Christina River, where the supplies were loaded on ships bound for Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

The town was formerly known as Malta, and gave its name to the " Malta War ", a minor rebellion against the Massachusetts state government in Boston over settlement and land ownership rights in the first decade of the 19th century.

The Boston and Maine Railroad laid tracks through the town in the 19th century, with several stations operating until the mid-20th century when the advent of the automobile transformed Merrimack from a largely agricultural community to a bedroom community of Boston and nearby cities in New Hampshire.

* In the 1990s, the Boston Beer Company produced a light beer was called Lightship, with a picture of a 19th Century lightship in rough seas on the label.

Category: 19th century in Boston, Massachusetts

Category: 19th century in Boston, Massachusetts

Category: 19th century in Boston, Massachusetts

Auber from sheet music for Lestocq ( Boston: William H. Oakes, 19th c .)