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“Pise-ball” was compared to rounders and baseball in a Leeds, West Yorkshire, newspaper article entitled “Child Life in America: “The national game of America is 'rounders' or 'pise-ball' developed to a science. It is more exciting than cricket. Whether it requires as great a degree of skill is a question which the country of cricket is not likely to decide in favour of the country of base-ball; but there is no doubt that when played according to rule—and it is seldom played otherwise—it is a game in which spectators take almost an equal interest with the participants.”
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