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Game	Squares
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location
Regions	Britain
Eras	1800s, Predecessor
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Description	According to Block, an 1838 encyclopedia describes the game of Squares as “roughly identical” to contemporary Rounders and Baseball.
Sources	David Block, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 138. The original source is Montague, The Youth's Encyclopedia of Health (1838).
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