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Olympic Ball Club Constitution Requires Umpires

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-modern Rules
Location Philadelphia
City/State/Country: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The constitution does not shed light on the nature of the game played. Membership was restricted to those above the age of twenty-one. One day per month was set for practice "Club day". Note: Sullivan dates the constitution at 1837, but notes that it was printed in 1838. 

The constitution specifies that the club recorder shall act as "umpire", to settle disputes.

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Constitution of the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia [Philadelphia, John Clark], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 223.

Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 5-8. 

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