Hit the Bat
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Curated by Larry McCray and Jeffrey Kittel
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Baseball · Kickball · Scrub · Fungo · Hat ball · Hook-em-snivy |
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| Game | Hit the Bat |
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| Game Family | Fungo |
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| Eras | Derivative |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | A fungo game in which a ball is hit to a group of fielders. If one of them can roll the ball back and hit the bat so that the ball hits the ground before the batter can catch the ricochet, the two exchange places. |
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| Comment | AKA Roll-the-Bat, Cherry, Rollabat. Cf. Sullivan, "Roll-the-Bat," Southwest Folklore 4 (1980) pp. 84-86; Cohen, The Games We Played (2001), p. 77 Edit with form to add a comment |
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