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Rules of baseball bought in auction for $3.26M
- Updated: April 24, 2016
7:57 AM ET
Documents laying out some of the original rules of baseball sold for $3.26 million early Sunday morning, setting a new record for the highest priced baseball document.
The buyer of the documents, sold by Calif.-based auction house SCP Auctions, is not yet known.
The documents relate to the foundation of the American game, including the one that first defined how the game was played in 1856.
The original rules, written by Daniel Lucius “Doc” Adams, stipulated that the ball can’t weight less than 5 3/4 ounces and the bat could be of any length but no more than 2½ inches at its widest part. It also set forth that there would be four bases, 30 yards apart with each base being one square foot.
Despite the founding of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown N.Y. …
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