The first game ever played “under the lights” was a local game played in 1880 in Nantasket Bay, Massachusetts.

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Major League Baseball has been playing night games since the 1930s, but the 1949 World Series between New York Yankees the Brooklyn Dodgers became the first to have a game “finished under artificial lights.”

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Game 4 of the 1971 World Series was the first scheduled World Series game to be played at night.