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|Game Tags=1800s, Europe | |||
|Description=<p>per Dick, 1864. A team game like rounders, but having large safety areas instead of posts or bases. A feeder makes a short gentle toss to a batter, who tries to hit it. The batter-runner then chooses whether to run for a distant goal-line or a nearer one, for which there is a smaller chance of being plugged. The nearer station can hold several runners at once. Three missed swings makes an out, as does a caught fly. Versions of Ball-Stock are found in British and American boys’ books in the mid-Nineteenth Century.</p> | |Description=<p>per Dick, 1864. A team game like rounders, but having large safety areas instead of posts or bases. A feeder makes a short gentle toss to a batter, who tries to hit it. The batter-runner then chooses whether to run for a distant goal-line or a nearer one, for which there is a smaller chance of being plugged. The nearer station can hold several runners at once. Three missed swings makes an out, as does a caught fly. Versions of Ball-Stock are found in British and American boys’ books in the mid-Nineteenth Century.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span>Dick, ed., </span><em>The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements</em><span> </span>(Dick and Fitzgerald [reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000], 1864)<span>., pages 112-113.</span></p> | |Sources=<p><span>Dick, ed., </span><em>The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements</em><span> </span>(Dick and Fitzgerald [reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000], 1864)<span>., pages 112-113.</span></p> | ||
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Revision as of 03:04, 24 June 2012
| Game | Ball-Stock |
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| Game Family | Baseball |
| Location | Germany |
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| Invented | |
| Tags | 1800s, Europe |
| Description | per Dick, 1864. A team game like rounders, but having large safety areas instead of posts or bases. A feeder makes a short gentle toss to a batter, who tries to hit it. The batter-runner then chooses whether to run for a distant goal-line or a nearer one, for which there is a smaller chance of being plugged. The nearer station can hold several runners at once. Three missed swings makes an out, as does a caught fly. Versions of Ball-Stock are found in British and American boys’ books in the mid-Nineteenth Century. |
| Sources | Dick, ed., The American Boys Book of Sports and Games: A Practical Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Amusements (Dick and Fitzgerald [reprinted by Lyons Press, 2000], 1864)., pages 112-113. |
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