''Les jeux des jeunes garçons : représentés par un grand nombre d'estampes, accompagnées de l'explication des règles, de fables inédites et d'anecdotes'' ("''Young Boys' Games''") is the first

book A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arr ...

known to have rules relating to a game similar to

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

. It was first published circa 1810. It described the game "poisoned ball".

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