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Constitution Written for Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia PA

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Text	This constitution is reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 5-8. The rules do 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. See Constitution of the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia [Philadelphia, John Clark], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 223.
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 |Text=<p>This constitution is reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <u>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908</u> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 5-8.  The rules do 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". <b>Note:</b> Sullivan dates the constitution at 1837, but notes that it was printed in 1838. See <u>Constitution of the Olympic Ball Club of Philadelphia</u> [Philadelphia, John Clark], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 223.</p>
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