1850c.56

Roundball Recalled in Maine

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules
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City/State/Country:	Norway, ME, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	Before modern base ball arrived around 1865, local boys played (in addition to "three-year-old cat" and barnball, the game of Roundball: ""The infield was not a diamond, but a parallelogram of varying proportions with the 'gools,' or bases, at the four corners as in Baseball, but the striker or batter stood midway between the first and fourth base, running three and a half bases in place of four bases as in Baseball. In Roundball a runner was put out between bases by being 'plunked' or 'spotted' by a ball thrown by a rival player. The ball was such as could be made from yarn raveled from a cast-off stocking, sometimes with a large bullet at the center to give it weight for long throws, and was covered with calf-skin begged from the family shoemaker."
Sources	Percival J. Parris, "Oxford County Baseball in 1865," Norway Advertised Democrat, April 13, 1945. Cited in
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