Pentoss

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Game Pentoss
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Regions Britain
Invented No
Description

Pentoss was reportedly a form of ladies' cricket.

A picture in the W. W. Grantham collection at Lewes, England, shows a game seeming to resemble stoolball, but with wickets that look like round targets, held up by a post on either side of the 'target.'  The bats are like smaller stoolball bats.

There is no firm indication of the approximate year that the picture portrays.

 

 

  

 

Sources

Email from Anita Broad, of Stoolball England, 4/13/2013.

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