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A list of all pages that have property "Description" with value "<p>Also called Tut, this game was in 1777 called “a sort of stool ball much practiced about the Easter holidays,” according to the OED. OED identifies Tut-Ball with [[Stoolball]] and [[Rounders]].</p> <p>[A] Gomme also cites a view that “This game is very nearly identical with ‘rounders.’” Another writer is known to say that Tut-Ball is the same as Pize-Ball. </p> <p>Gomme, however reports that balls were hit back with the palm of the hand, not a bat, at least in its earlier form.</p> <p>[B] Writing in 1905, Joseph Wright said:  </p> <p>"<span>Yorkshire</span>: Now only played by boys, but half a century ago [1850's] by Adults on Ash Wednesday, believing that unless they did so they would fall sick in harvest time.  This is a very ancient game, and was elsewhere called stool-ball. [West Yorkshire]. <span>Shropshire</span>: Tut-ball; as played at a young ladies school at Shiffnal fifty years ago. (See also [[1850c.34]]).  The players stood together in their 'den,'behind a line marked on the ground, all except one, who was 'out', and who stood at a distance and threw the ball to them.  One of the players in the den then hit back the ball with the palm of the hand, and immediately ran to one of three brick-bats, called 'tuts' . . . .  The player who was 'out' tried to catch the ball and to hit the runner with it while passing from one 'tut' to another.  If she succeeded in doing so she took her place in the den and the other went 'out' in her stead.  This game is nearly identical with rounders."<span> </span></p>". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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