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• Indian Ball  + (<p>Per Brewster, 1953: A down-sized, … <p>Per Brewster, 1953: A down-sized, non-running baseball variant. Two teams of five players form. A regular softball is pitched underhand to the batter. Outs are recorded for caught fly balls and ground balls cleanly fielded inside the baselines. Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.  The playing field is represented in a figure showing a fair ground of less than 45 degrees.</p></br><p>See also the text of "Teach Your Kids to Play Indian Ball!," below.  The variant of the non-running game Indian Ball described in this 2013 article entails pitching by a member of the batting team, strikes called on all balls that are not hit fair (including pitches not swung at), outs on short fair hits, home runs for suitably long fair hits, employment of a baseball or tennis ball, and ghost runners.  The author, at playcorkball.com,  stresses that players can play this game without adult supervision.</p></br><p>An account of Indian Ball as played in St. Louis in 2008 is found at <a href="http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/July-2008/What-the-Is-Indian-Ball/">http://www.stlmag.com/St-Louis-Magazine/July-2008/What-the-Is-Indian-Ball/</a>. </p></br><p>The O'Leary article below has the "rules" of the game, and a diagram. The field is triangular, and the game is said to be a variant of stickball when you have less than 18 players, and with as few as three.</p></br><p> </p></br><p> </p>ers, and with as few as three.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>)

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