# Early Baseball in Print

Baseball was a popular game from the very beginning of the United States, but it was played by local rules that varied across the country. However, the mid-19th century explosion of print culture allowed for standardized rules to turn a neighborhood game into a shared national pastime.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 6 min
- By: Hastings, Patrick
- Genres: Sports
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10962/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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