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|Year=1854 | |Year=1854 | ||
| | |Year Number=8 | ||
|Game=Rounders | |Headline=Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders" | ||
|Text=<p>"between | |Salience=2 | ||
<p>James Pycroft, < | |Location=England, | ||
|Country=England | |||
|Game=Rounders, Cricket | |||
|Age of Players=Juvenile, Adult | |||
|Text=<p> </p> | |||
<p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p> | |||
<p>" . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of <strong>rounders</strong>) the hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. </p> | |||
|Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> Pycroft was first published in 1851. See item #[[1851.1]]. Was this material in the first edition?</p> | |||
|Submitted by=John Thorn | |||
|Submission Note=1/13/07 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197 | |||
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Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders"
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | EnglandEngland |
| City/State/Country: | England |
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| Game | Rounders, CricketRounders, Cricket |
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| Age of Players | Juvenile, AdultJuvenile, Adult |
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A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket" " . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."
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| Sources | James Pycroft, The Cricket Field [1854], page 68. |
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| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Note: Pycroft was first published in 1851. See item #1851.1. Was this material in the first edition? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | 1/13/07 |
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1854.8 Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders""
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