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|Game=Bull Pen ...e playing "bull pen," and suggests that games such as "town ball" or "bull pen" are healthy exercises.</p>

|Term=Bull Pen |Sources=<p><span>Paul G. Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games&nbsp;</em>(U Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1953)<span>, page 82-83.</span></p>

|Game=Town Ball, Bull Pen ...ayed the games of boyhood then known to us. The game of ball called ''bull pen, town ball, prisoner's base'', foot racing, high jumping, far jumping, hop,

...ized games, choices for males [in NC] appear to have been 'town-ball, bull-pen,' 'cat,' and 'prisoner's base,' whatever exhibitions of dexterity they may ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 32.</p>

...'straight town''',&nbsp;round town, base, bull pen and antnee over." (Bull pen was dodgeball, but played with a baseball. Ouch!)</p> ...pton Osborne (b. 1894):'Round-town' and ''''straight-town' '''were popular games. Round-town had four bases in a circle, as baseball does today. If the batt

...y tossed it to and fro and at an opportune time hit one of the boys in the pen. The corner men then retreated to a stand and the one who had been hit by t

|Headline=Nostalgia for old games of Two Old Cat, Three Old Cat, Bull Pen, Run Around

|Headline=Alabama soldiers play bull-pen, cat and town ball ...r tents by wet and cold weather. Two days later, there were games of “Bull-Pen”, “Cat”, and “Town-Ball," going on all day except when drilling.

...town, <strong>round town</strong>, base, bull pen and antnee over." (Bull pen was dodgeball, but played with a baseball. Ouch!)</p> ...(b. 1894): "'<strong>Round-town'</strong> and 'straight-town' were popular games. Round-town had four bases in a circle, as baseball does today. If the batt

...; 'battery' at least fifty feet wide. The school boys played 'base,' 'bull-pen,' 'town ball' and 'shinny' too."&nbsp;</p> ...Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2

...camp are playing "the sports sof boyhood in games of "Prison ball," "Bull pen," etc."&nbsp;</p>

|Sources=<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>,"&nbsp;</span><em>Journal ...href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America">North America</a>. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied

<p>Games. <em>See </em>Sports and games</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ---sports and games: . . .&nbsp; fives, 453, 492; . . . town ball, 451; . . .</p>

...rouping it with other unregulated, bat and ball, safe-haven, American folk games. While this is an acceptable description of the game, it does little to in ...distinguished town ball from other types of bat and ball, safe-haven folk games.