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The Ball in Ancient Play
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| Game | XenoballXenoball |
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| Age of Players | UnknownUnknown |
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| Text | 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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| Sources | Henderson, Robert W., Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games [Rockport Press, 1947], pp. 8-21. |
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| Query | Did any of these games feature base-running? Batting? Has the last 65 years of scholarship added detail to this sweeping claim? Edit with form to add a query |
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-2000c.1 The Ball in Ancient Play"
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