knickerbockers in A Sentence

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    The Knickerbockers Baseball Club.

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    The Knickerbockers, though the ones who set down the rules for the game, lost 23-1.

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    The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under modern rules, is founded in New York.

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    The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

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    The Knickerbockers Baseball Club; the first baseball team to play undr the modern rules is founded in New York.

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    The game was played on the Elysian Fields between the New York Nine and the Knickerbockers, at the time the only two clubs playing by this exact set of rules.

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    The rules for this adapted game were codified in Hoboken, New Jersey on the Elysian Fields, with the first official“base ball” club being the New York Knickerbockers, led by Alexander Cartwright(bookseller and volunteer fire fighter).

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    The Knickerbockers then adapted the rules of various stick ball sports to make one that suited their particular purpose to get exercise in a fun way with little chance of injury(so, for instance, they got rid of the somewhat common rule that you could throw a ball at someone and if it hit him, he would be out).

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