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RetroSeasons
RetroSeasons recaps past sports seasons through stories, photos, videos, and stats from every team, league, and stadium in history. Coverage includes the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL, as well as vintage media from defunct teams and leagues.
Haney's Base Ball Player's Reference
1866 Issue
Henry Chadwick was a sports journalist and leading promoter of early baseball. He regularly wrote about baseball and helped develop standard rules for the game. Chadwick's reference helped teach the game to interested audiences and set rules for teams to follow. The twenty-four clubs who competed in the 1867 World's Tournament of Base Ball, held in Detroit, used it as the official rulebook.