Tut-Ball
| Game | Tut-Ball |
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| Game Family | Kickball |
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| Eras | Predecessor, 1800s |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | Also called Tut, this game was in 1777 called “a sort of stool ball much practiced about the Easter holidays,” according to the OED. OED identifies Tut-Ball with Stoolball and Rounders. Gomme also cites a view that “This game is very nearly identical with ‘rounders.’” Another writer is known to say that Tut-Ball is the same as Pize-Ball. Gomme, however reports that balls were hit back with the palm of the hand, not a bat, at least in its earlier form. |
| Sources | Alice B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Davit Nutt, London, 1898), page 314. |
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| Comment | Gomme, writing in the 1890s, reports that tut-ball was played at Shiffnal, a school for young ladies around 1840. (The town of Shiffnal is northwest of Birmingham.) She also wrote that "A game of ball, now only played by boys, but a half century ago by adults on Ash Wednesday, believing that unless they did so they wou'd fall sick in harvest time. This is a very ancient game, and was elsewhere called "Stool-ball' indulged in by \the clergy as well as laity to avert misfortune." She cites other sources as noting the similarity of tut-ball and stool-ball. One wonders whether some observers may have used “Tut-Ball” generically, to signify any game with “tuts,” or bases. Edit with form to add a comment |
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