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|Year=1858 | |||
|Year Number=23 | |||
|Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs | |Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Chapbooks for Juveniles, | |||
|Location=England, | |||
|Country=England | |||
|Game=Rounders | |Game=Rounders | ||
|Text=<p>George Forrest, < | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
<p>The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball. </p> | |Age of Players=Juvenile | ||
<p>Among the features shown: | |Text=<p>George Forrest, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.</p> | ||
<p>The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball.</p> | |||
<p>Among the features shown: when only a few players were available, backward hits were not in play; leading and pickoffs were used in rounders; the rounders bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><br /></strong></p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197 | |||
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Location | EnglandEngland |
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Game | RoundersRounders |
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Age of Players | JuvenileJuvenile |
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Text | George Forrest, The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books. The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball. Among the features shown: when only a few players were available, backward hits were not in play; leading and pickoffs were used in rounders; the rounders bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. |
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