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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;"'Rounders,' from which modern baseball is generally believed to have derived its origin, was a very simple game - so simple, in fact, that girls could play it. It was played with a ball and bats and was practiced in this country as early as 1825 [p. 437] . . . Rounders was popular between 1825 and 1840, but meantime there had been many other forms of ball playing. [.p 438]"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;George V. Tuohey, "The Story of Baseball," &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Scrap Book&lt;/span&gt; (Munsey, New York, 1906), pp. 437ff.&lt;strong&gt; Caution:&lt;/strong&gt; Tuohey gives no evidentiary support for this observation, and the Protoball sub-chronology [&lt;a href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm"&gt;http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.Rounders.htm&lt;/a&gt;] for rounders shows no firm evidence that a game then called rounders was popular in the US.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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