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Exciting [Adult] Rounders in the Arctic
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Game | RoundersRounders |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | Osborn, Lieut. Sherard, Stray Leaves from an Arctic journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions (London, Longman + Co), page 77, "Shouts of laughter! Roars of 'Not fair, not fair! Run again!' 'Well done, well done!' from individuals leaping and clapping their hands with excitement, arose from many a ring, in which 'rounders' with a cruelly hard ball, was being played." |
Sources | David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 214. |
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Comment | It seems unusual that a rounders ball would be characterized as hard; perhaps softer versions were used when younger players played the game, and one might guess that even in adult play, the ball would be seen as softer than the cricket ball. Edit with form to add a comment |
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1852.6 Exciting [Adult] Rounders in the Arctic"
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