On April 24, 2016, the last hours of the auction for the “Laws of Base Ball” authored by Doc Adams lived up to its billing and did not disappoint as the closing bid came in at $3,263,246 setting a new record for the highest priced baseball document.

“Adams’s hand in the sport’s early rule-making is not a revelation; instead, it is the physical record of his central role memorialized in the three surviving pages of his document.”

“Back on the Auction Block, a 19th-Century Document Essential to Baseball’s Rules”, Richard Sandomir, The New York Times (February 28, 2016)

This compelling artifact surely establishes that Daniel Lucius ‘Doc’ Adams is unequivocally a key Founding Father of baseball and deserves to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Coming up merely 2 votes short of election in the balloting conducted in December 2015, it would seem that this evidence, written in Doc’s own hand, should convince ALL of the members of the Classic Baseball Era Committee to be convened this December, to finally acknowledge Doc’s place in baseball history. If he makes the ballot.

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The Laws of Base Ball