Game Glossary Term Edit: Sixteen-Inch Softball (No-Glove Softball)

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Baseball Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams. Kickball Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and two distinct teams (but no batting). Scrub Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams). Fungo Games featuring batting/hitting (but no baserunning). Hat ball Games featuring baserunning and/or plugging (but no batting). Hook-em-snivy Games for which the rules of play are not known and, and some that are commonly encountered by researchers but that are not safe-haven games (including shinty, bandy, and stow-ball).

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Description:	<p>A 2009 article reports on a game played mostly in Chicago involving a ball of 16” circumference and using no gloves. No other variations are covered. The article is not clear on the local name for the game, but another account calls the large ball a “clincher,” and notes that games were sometimes played in the street. (Note: [[Line Ball]], another Chicago game, also used a large ball.)  It appears that the game generally follows the rules of softball.</p> <p><strong>Query: </strong>Can you supply further details about this game?</p>
Sources:	<p><span>M. Davey, “Gloveless Players Hold on to Softball Dream,” </span><em>New York</em><em> Times</em><span>, 9/18/09.</span></p> <p><span><span>E. Hageman, “The Clincher,” In Gary Land, ed., </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 131-132.</span></span></p>
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