Rule Sets
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I. Official Rule Sets
Early New York Club Rules
- 1845 Knickerbocker Rules
- 1848 Knickerbocker Rules
- 1852 Eagle Rules
- 1854 Unified Knickerbocker-Eagle-Gotham Rules
- 1856 Putnam Rules
- 1857 Convention Rules
National Association of Base Ball Players Rules
- 1858 NABBP Rules
- 1859 NABBP Rules
- 1860 NABBP Rules
- 1861 NABBP Rules
- 1863 NABBP Rules
- 1865 NABBP Rules
- 1866 NABBP Rules
- 1867 NABBP Rules
- 1868 NABBP Rules
- 1869 NABBP Rules
- 1870 NABBP Rules
- Chadwick's Summary of Rules Changes, 1871
Massachusetts Rules
II. Published Descriptive Rule Sets
- Gutsmuths' Englische Base-ball 1796
- La balle empoisonnée (Poisoned Ball) 1815
- Rounders 1828
- Base, or Goal-ball 1834
- Base Ball 1835
- Feeder and Rounders 1841
- Rounders ca. 1860
III. Informal descriptions
- Base Ball, upstate New York (1820s)
- Town Ball, Georgia (1830s)
- Gotham Club Rules (1837)
- Baseball, Ontario (1838)
- Round Ball, Massachusetts (1840s)
- “A Game of Ball”, Massachusetts (1853)
- Townball, Cincinnati (1860s)
- Round Town, Virginia (1890s)
IV. Related games
Cricket
Longball
- Gutsmuths' Deutsche Ballspiel
- German Schlagball
- Polish Palant (Pilka Palantowa)
- Danish Longball (Langbold)
- Russian Lapta
Roundball
- Swedish Brännboll (Burn-ball)
- German Brennball (Burn-ball)
- Norwegian Dødball (Dead-ball)
- Finnish Pesäpallo
- Irish Rounders
- British Baseball