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|Text=<p>"'Rounders,' from which modern baseball is generally believed to have derived its origin, was a very simple game - so simple, in fact, that girls could play it. It was played with a ball and bats and was practiced in this country as early as 1825 [p. 437] . . . Rounders was popular between 1825 and 1840, but meantime there had been many other forms of ball playing. [.p 438]"</p> | |Text=<p>"'Rounders,' from which modern baseball is generally believed to have derived its origin, was a very simple game - so simple, in fact, that girls could play it. It was played with a ball and bats and was practiced in this country as early as 1825 [p. 437] . . . Rounders was popular between 1825 and 1840, but meantime there had been many other forms of ball playing. [.p 438]"</p> | ||
<p>George V. Tuohey, "The Story of Baseball," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Scrap Book</span> (Munsey, New York, 1906), pp. 437ff.<strong> Caution:</strong> Tuohey gives no evidentiary support for this observation, and the Protoball sub-chronology [<a href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm">http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm</a>] for rounders shows no firm evidence that a game then called rounders was popular in the US.</p> | <p>George V. Tuohey, "The Story of Baseball," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Scrap Book</span> (Munsey, New York, 1906), pp. 437ff.<strong> Caution:</strong> Tuohey gives no evidentiary support for this observation, and the Protoball sub-chronology [<a href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm">http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm</a>] for rounders shows no firm evidence that a game then called rounders was popular in the US.</p> | ||
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| Text | "'Rounders,' from which modern baseball is generally believed to have derived its origin, was a very simple game - so simple, in fact, that girls could play it. It was played with a ball and bats and was practiced in this country as early as 1825 [p. 437] . . . Rounders was popular between 1825 and 1840, but meantime there had been many other forms of ball playing. [.p 438]" George V. Tuohey, "The Story of Baseball," The Scrap Book (Munsey, New York, 1906), pp. 437ff. Caution: Tuohey gives no evidentiary support for this observation, and the Protoball sub-chronology [http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm] for rounders shows no firm evidence that a game then called rounders was popular in the US. |
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