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"Bound Rule" Universal in American Baseball-- Rules Committee

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-Knicks NYC, Pre-modern Rules
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Text

"All the various modifications of Base Ball, which have so long been played in different parts of the country, have universally recognized the 'first bound', consequently, it is closely associated with all our boyish recollections, and is cherished with the same tenacity, and for the same reason, that the English cricketer adheres to the 'fly'."

Sources

New York Sunday Mercury, March 18, 1860. Recommendations of the NABBP Committee on Rules and Regulation to the NABBP Convention.

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The Committee nonetheless recommended adopting the "fly game".

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 3/18/2014



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