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|Headline=Compendium Describes [Pentagonal] 5-Base Rounders, Feeder | |Headline=Compendium Describes [Pentagonal] 5-Base Rounders, Feeder | ||
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|Text=<p>Williams, J. L., <u>The Every Boy's Book, a Compendium of All the Sports and Recreations of Youth</u> [London, Dean and Munday], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 205. This big book covered hundreds of children's pastimes, including feeder, the German game "ball-stock" (ball-stick), and a version of rounders that, unlike the 1828 <u>Boy's Own Book</u> (see 1828 entry above) is played with five bases laid out in a pentagon instead of four in a diamond, and counter-clockwise running.</p> | |Text=<p>Williams, J. L., <u>The Every Boy's Book, a Compendium of All the Sports and Recreations of Youth</u> [London, Dean and Munday], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 205. This big book covered hundreds of children's pastimes, including feeder, the German game "ball-stock" (ball-stick), and a version of rounders that, unlike the 1828 <u>Boy's Own Book</u> (see 1828 entry above) is played with five bases laid out in a pentagon instead of four in a diamond, and counter-clockwise running.</p> | ||
<p><b>For Text:</b> David Block carries two long paragraphs and a field diagram of feeder, and a two-paragraph description of rounders, in Appendix 7, pages 284-286, of <u>Baseball Before We Knew It.</u></p> | <p><b>For Text:</b> David Block carries two long paragraphs and a field diagram of feeder, and a two-paragraph description of rounders, in Appendix 7, pages 284-286, of <u>Baseball Before We Knew It.</u></p> | ||
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Text | Williams, J. L., The Every Boy's Book, a Compendium of All the Sports and Recreations of Youth [London, Dean and Munday], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 205. This big book covered hundreds of children's pastimes, including feeder, the German game "ball-stock" (ball-stick), and a version of rounders that, unlike the 1828 Boy's Own Book (see 1828 entry above) is played with five bases laid out in a pentagon instead of four in a diamond, and counter-clockwise running. For Text: David Block carries two long paragraphs and a field diagram of feeder, and a two-paragraph description of rounders, in Appendix 7, pages 284-286, of Baseball Before We Knew It. |
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