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Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders"
Salience | Noteworthy |
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City/State/Country: | England |
Modern Address | |
Game | Rounders, CricketRounders, Cricket |
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Age of Players | Juvenile, AdultJuvenile, Adult |
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A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket" " . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."
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Sources | James Pycroft, The Cricket Field [1854], page 68. |
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Query | Note: Pycroft was first published in 1851. See item #1851.1. Was this material in the first edition? Edit with form to add a query |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | John Thorn |
Submission Note | 1/13/07 |
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1854.8 Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders""
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