Unnamed Games - Czech

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Game Unnamed Games - Czech
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Location Czechoslovakia
Eras Predecessor
Invented No
Description

per Guarinoni. This game, reportedly played in Prague circa 1600, involved two teams, pitching, and a small leather ball “the size of a quince.” The bat was tapered and four feet long. Caught balls caused the teams to change positions. Baserunning is not mentioned, according to David Block, but is at least inferred by Endrei and Zolnay: who say that the batter “attempted to make a circuit of the bases without being hit by the ball.” Guarinoni mentions that the Poles and the Silesians were the best players.

Sources

-Hippolytus Guarinoni*, The Horrors of the Devastation of the Human Race (Orig: Greuel Der Verwustung Des Menschlichen Geschlechts (Ingolstadt, Austria 1610).

Block, David, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).

Endrei, Fun and Games in Old Europe.

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