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|Text=<p>Ancient cultures&mdash;Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, fertility rites and religious rituals.</p>
|Age of Players=Unknown
<p>Henderson, Robert W., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.</p>
|Text=<p>Ancient cultures&mdash;Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians&mdash;play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.</p>
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|Sources=<p>Henderson, Robert W., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.</p>
|Query=<p>Did any of these games feature base-running?&nbsp; Batting?&nbsp; Has the last 65 years of scholarship added detail to this sweeping claim?</p>
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The Ball in Ancient Play

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Ancient cultures—Lydians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians—play primitive ball games for recreation, as fertility rites and in religious rituals.

 

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Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21.

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Did any of these games feature base-running?  Batting?  Has the last 65 years of scholarship added detail to this sweeping claim?

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