Round Cat

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Game	Round Cat
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	US South
Regions	US
Eras	1800s, Derivative
Invented	No
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Description	Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief mentions of this game being played from Washington DC southward, but no explanation of how it was played. One account identifies it as similar to Scrub as played in New England.
Sources	Dialect Notes (American Dialect Society, Norwood MA, 1896), page 214. Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." Base Ball (Spring 2011).
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