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New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club

American baseball club

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history of baseball

  • An international game
    In baseball: Early years

    …New York City, organized the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, which formulated a set of rules for baseball, many of which still remain. The rules were much like those for rounders, but with a significant change in that the runner was put out not by being hit with the…

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