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|Year=1852 |Headline=Eagle Ball Club Rulebook Appears

|Headline=New NY Club Forms - Later to Reconstitute as Eagle Base Ball Club ...play an unknown game of Ball; in 1852 the club reconstitutes itself as the Eagle Base Ball Club and begins to play the New York Game.</p>

==Early New York Club Rules== *[[The 20 Rules of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club|1845 Knickerbocker Rules]]

...lay ball among themselves from 1845 to 1849, just as the Knickerbocker and Eagle clubs appear to have done. In 1850 those Gotham and New York members who ha ...ckers to match games that have been preserved in the historical record. In 1852 the club reverted to its old name of Gothams, 'consolidating with' the Wash

|Name=Eagle Base Ball Club of New York .... 1 called a meeting and organized a base ball club.' Finally in 1871, the Eagle Club made plans to celebrate its eighteenth anniversary on August 25, which

...he base-ball clubs,&rdquo; agreed finally upon the settlement of a code of rules and regulations of the game, binding upon all clubs represented at the Conv <p class="p1">The exercise games are now governed by the Rules and Regulations adopted at the Convention of Base Ball Clubs held at the ci

|Title=Very Early (pre-1857) Rules on Base Advancement After Caught Fly Balls The rules of 1857 and 1858 don’t allow the runner to advance at all:

...Fox Hill, not down by the river). William Rufus Wheaton wrote the playing rules for the New York Club (Gothams, Washingtons) in 1837; they played at the so ...nd Street and Second Avenue. While New York ball clubs such as the Empire, Eagle, and Mutual--and of course the Knickerbockers--felt compelled to leave lowe

...Fox Hill, not down by the river). William Rufus Wheaton wrote the playing rules for the New York Club (Gothams, Washingtons) in 1837; they played at the so ...nd Street and Second Avenue. While New York ball clubs such as the Empire, Eagle, and Mutual--and of course the Knickerbockers--felt compelled to leave lowe

...nbsp; &nbsp;[[Tom asserts that "OFBB" here reflects a game played by Knick rules, not as throwback versions of earlier folk play -- LMc]]&nbsp;</p> <p>1852.1&nbsp; March 5: Michael McCarthy (sic) prop Pavilion EF “killed by the a

== 1852 == | <p>4 Jul, 1852</p>