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Official Rule Sets
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Early New York Club Rules
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1845 Knickerbocker Rules
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1848 Knickerbocker Rules
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1852 Eagle Rules
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1854 Unified Knickerbocker-Eagle-Gotham Rules
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1856 Putnam Rules
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1857 Convention Rules
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National Association of Base Ball Players Rules
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1858 NABBP Rules
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1859 NABBP Rules
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1860 NABBP Rules
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1861 NABBP Rules
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1863 NABBP Rules
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1865 NABBP Rules
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1866 NABBP Rules
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1867 NABBP Rules
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1868 NABBP Rules
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1869 NABBP Rules
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1870 NABBP Rules
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Chadwick's Summary of Rules Changes, 1871
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Massachusetts Rules
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1858 Dedham Rules
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1863 New Marlboro Rules
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Published Descriptive Rule Sets
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Gutsmuths' Englische Base-ball 1796
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La balle empoisonnée (Poisoned Ball) 1815
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Rounders 1828
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Base, or Goal-ball 1834
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Base Ball 1835
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Feeder and Rounders, 1841
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Rounders ca. 1860
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Informal descriptions
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Base Ball, upstate New York (1820s)
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Town Ball, Georgia (1830s)
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Gotham Club Rules (1837)
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Baseball, Ontario (1838)
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Round Ball, Massachusetts (1840s)
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“A Game of Ball”, Massachusetts (1853)
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Townball, Cincinnati (1860s)
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Round Town, Virginia (1890s)
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Related games
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Cricket
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The Laws of Cricket (1774)
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Longball
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Gutsmuths' Deutsche Ballspiel
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German Schlagball
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Polish Palant (Pilka Palantowa)
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Danish Longball (Langbold)
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Russian Lapta
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Roundball
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Swedish Brännboll (Burn-ball)
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German Brennball (Burn-ball)
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Norwegian Dødball (Dead-ball)
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Finnish Pesäpallo
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Irish Rounders
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British Baseball
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