| Game
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Lobber
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| Game Family
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Baseball Baseball
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| Location
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Ireland
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| Regions
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Britain
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| Eras
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1800s
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| Invented
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No
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| Description
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There are three or more players on each side, two stones or holes as stations, and one Lobber.
The Lobber lobs either a stick about three
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inches long or a ball—(the ball seems to be a new institution, as a
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stick was always formerly used)—while the batsman defends the stone or
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hole with either a short stick or his hand. Every time the stick or ball
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is hit, the boys defending the stones or holes must change places. Each
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one is out if the stick or ball lodges in the hole or hits the stone; or
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if the ball or stone is caught; or if it can be put in the hole or hits
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the stone while the boys are changing places. This game is also played
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with two Lobbers, that lob alternately from each end. The game is won by
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a certain number of runs.
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| Sources
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Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London, D. Nutt, 1894), page unspecified. Gomme attributes this entry to "Folk-lore Journal, ii 264."
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