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Game Family Fungo Fungo
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Description

A fungo-like game played in Elizabethan times in England. The ball was an inflated leather bag, and was knocked with the arm - sometimes aided by a wooden brace. Hitting for distance was evidently desired, but no running or fielding is described.

An illustration and description of "balloon ball" is in Hone, p. 96.

A later game of "balloon ball" is described in the Evansville Courier, July 6, 1895.

Sources

Paul G. Brewster, "Games and Sports in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century British Literature," Western Folklore 6, no. 2 (1947)., page 143.

Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 96

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