NL Constitution
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The NL Constitution was the first ever governing text to Major League Baseball. It read as follows:
The objects of this League are:
- To encourage, foster, and elevate the game of baseball.
- To enact and enforce proper rules for the exhibition and conduct of the game.
- To make baseball playing respectable and honorable.
- To protect and promote the mutual interests of professional baseball clubs and professional baseball players; and
- To establish and regulate the baseball championship of the United States.
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