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Rule Sets

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

1858 Dedham Rules

1863 New Marlboro Rules

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

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)

Related games

Cricket

The Laws of Cricket (1774)

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

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