Tripbal

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Game	Tripbal
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	An old Dutch game. Chetwynd reports that a proponent of the importation of baseball to the Netherlands in the 1910s “pitched it as an ideal summer activity. It probably helped that Grasé pointed out that baseball bore a resemblance to an ancient Dutch game, called “Tripbal,” which had been played by American colonists.” We have no other reference to this game in the US, and no indication of how it was played.
Sources	Josh Chetwynd, Baseball in Europe: A Country by Country History (McFarland, 2008). page 14.
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