1846.14

English Crew Teaches Rounders to Baltic Islanders

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Text	"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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