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Ohio. The Cincinnati Reds are recognized as the first all professional baseball team.
Pennsylvania
It was played in New Jersey. The game was played on June 19, 1846 at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey (just across the Hudson River west of Manhattan, between the modern locations of the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels).
The first professional baseball league in the United States was the National Association who began play in 1871. Finding schedules for the games played is very difficult if not impossible. To know which team played the first game in the northeast is extremely difficult to determine. I can tell you that there were three northeastern teams in the National Association in 1871. Those teams were the Troy (NY) Trojans, New York Mutuals, and Boston Red Stockings. So that would mean the first professional game in the northeast was played in one of those three cities.
Polo was first played in a north-eastern state of India, Manipur.