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<p>Accessible on Google Books 11/13 via <letters from hofwyl> search.</p> | <p>Accessible on Google Books 11/13 via <letters from hofwyl> search.</p> | ||
|Comment=<p>From David Block: "Unless I'm forgetting something, this may be the earliest example we have of baseball or rounders being played outside of Britain or North America. (I don't count Gutsmuths because there is no evidence that the game was actually played at Schnepfenthal.)</p> | |Comment=<p>From David Block: "Unless I'm forgetting something, this may be the earliest example we have of baseball or rounders being played outside of Britain or North America. (I don't count Gutsmuths because there is no evidence that the game was actually played at Schnepfenthal.)</p> | ||
|Query=<p>Was the game dissimilar from the "battingball games" reported by Maigaard?</p> | |Query=<p>Was the game dissimilar from the European "battingball games" reported by Maigaard?</p> | ||
<p>Can we determine whether the players were youths or juveniles?</p> | <p>Can we determine whether the players were youths or juveniles?</p> | ||
|Submitted by=David Block | |Submitted by=David Block | ||
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Rounders Reported at Swiss School
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Bern, Switzerland |
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| Game | RoundersRounders |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | An 1842 reference indicates that rounders was played at an international agricultural school near Bern. "During a general game, in which some of the masters join (rounders I think the English boys called it) I have observed . . . " |
| Sources | "Letters from Hofwyl by a Parent on the Educational Institutions of De Fellenberg," 1842, pp. 90-91. Accessible on Google Books 11/13 via <letters from hofwyl> search. |
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| Comment | From David Block: "Unless I'm forgetting something, this may be the earliest example we have of baseball or rounders being played outside of Britain or North America. (I don't count Gutsmuths because there is no evidence that the game was actually played at Schnepfenthal.) Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Was the game dissimilar from the European "battingball games" reported by Maigaard? Can we determine whether the players were youths or juveniles? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | David Block |
| Submission Note | Email of 11/13/2013 |
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