Balloon

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Game	Balloon
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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