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|Headline=English Crew Teaches Rounders to Baltic Islanders
|Headline=English Crew Teaches Rounders to Baltic Islanders
|Year=1846
|Year=1846
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Salience=2
|Game=Xenoball
|Game=Xenoball
|Text=<p>"In 1846 a three-master . . . from London stranded on the island. . . .  The captain spent the winter with the local minister, and the sailors with the peasants.  According to information given by a man named Matts Bisa, the visitors taught the men of Runö a new batting game.  As the cry "runders" shows, his game was the English rounders, a predecessor of baseball.  It was made part of the old cult game."</p>
|Text=<p>"In 1846 a three-master . . . from London stranded on the island. . . .  The captain spent the winter with the local minister, and the sailors with the peasants.  According to information given by a man named Matts Bisa, the visitors taught the men of Runö a new batting game.  As the cry "runders" shows, his game was the English rounders, a predecessor of baseball.  It was made part of the old cult game."</p>
<p>Mehl [first name?], "A Batting Game on the Island of Runö," <u>Western Folklore</u> vol 8, number 3, (1949?), page 268.  This game was conserved on the island, at least until 1949.  <b>Note:</b> wish we hadn't dropped part of this citation.</p>
<p>Mehl [first name?], "A Batting Game on the Island of Runö," <u>Western Folklore</u> vol 8, number 3, (1949?), page 268.  This game was conserved on the island, at least until 1949.  <b>Note:</b> wish we hadn't dropped part of this citation.</p>
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"In 1846 a three-master . . . from London stranded on the island. . . . The captain spent the winter with the local minister, and the sailors with the peasants. According to information given by a man named Matts Bisa, the visitors taught the men of Runö a new batting game. As the cry "runders" shows, his game was the English rounders, a predecessor of baseball. It was made part of the old cult game."

Mehl [first name?], "A Batting Game on the Island of Runö," Western Folklore vol 8, number 3, (1949?), page 268. This game was conserved on the island, at least until 1949. Note: wish we hadn't dropped part of this citation.

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