Sockey

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Game	Sockey
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	An 1887 source reporting that Rounders was still being played in some Southern and Western states, also noted that the game was called Sockey in some states. Our only reference to Sockey is in an 1888 recollection of ballplaying at a PA school, and notes that this game was played against the wall of a stable.
Sources	Hall, The Tribune Book of Open-Air Sports (1887), cited in K. Grover, Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940 (UMass Press, 1992), page 244. F. C. Tatum, Old West Town Ferris Brothers, Philadelphia, 1888), page 8.
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