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{{Chronology Entry |Headline=Stoolball Said to Originate Among Sussex Milkmaids |Year=1300 |Year Suffix=s |Salience=2 |Game=Stoolball |Tags=Females |Text=<p>"Stoolball is a ball game that dates back to the 14<sup>th</sup> century, originating in Sussex [in southern England]. It may be an ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles), baseball, and rounders. Traditionally it was played be milkmaids who used their milking stools as 'wickets.' . . ." Later forms of the game involved running between two wickets, but "[o]riginally the batsman simply had to defend his stool from each ball with his hand and would score a point for each delivery until the stool was hit. The game later evolved to include runs and bats."</p> <p>Source: Wikipedia entry on "Stoolball," accessed 1/25/2007. <b>Note:</b> this source does not credit bittle-battle [see entry 1086.1] as an earlier form of stoolball. It gives no citations for the evidence of the founding date. The Wikipedia entry is compatible with entry #1330.1, below, but evidently does not credit 1330 as the likely time of stoolball's appearance.</p> |Reviewed=Yes |Year Number=3 }}
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