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...with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a modification of Round Ball for a less number of players than the regular game required."</p>

|Term=Round Cat |Description=<p>Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief

...with Massachusetts Round Ball, and even considered a modification of Round Ball for a less number of players than the regular game required."

|Headline=Worcester Man Recalls Round Ball in the 1850s |Game=Round Ball,

|Term=Round Ball ...bat-and-ball for this period.&nbsp; There is no indication if or how these games differed, or whether they are direct antecedents of the Mass Game rules of

|Headline=Sergeant from 15th MA Plays Round Ball with 34th NY |Game=Round Ball,

|Headline=Plymouth MA Boys Play Round Ball, Other Ballgames: Ballmaking Described ...it with good, tightly spun twine. Attempts were occasionally made to play ball in the streets, but the by-laws of the town forbidding it were rigidly enfo

|Headline=Organized Round Ball in New England Morphs Toward the "MA Game" |Game=Round Ball, Massachusetts Game,

|Game=Long Town Ball ...rows at him. The suspense under which the victim was while waiting for the ball to strike was telling.

*[[The 20 Rules of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club|1845 Knickerbocker Rules]] ==National Association of Base Ball Players Rules==

|Headline="Base Ball" and "Bat and Ball" Seen as the Same Game |Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball

|Name=Round Ball in MA in 1840 |Game=Round Ball

...ine=Traveler in Wales Reports "Laudable" Sunday Games of "Trap, Cat, Stool-ball, Racket &amp;c" ...ify in the churchyard at the lawful and laudable games of trap, cat, stool-ball, racket, &amp;c., on Sundays."</p>

|Headline=Students Play Ball Game at Progressive School in Northampton MA ...ncroft; in addition to building a gymnasium, the first US school to do so, Round Hill was one of the very first schools to incorporate physical education in

...traight Town”, which he played while a pupil at the old-time school? These games have made school life more tolerable for many a boy. ...s brought all of a side who were out back into the game again. Sometime a round made on one lick restored all the outs; sometimes it restored only one.

...the batting. At present heavy hard hitters, who go in at the bat to hit a ball as far as they can without the least idea of where it is going to, and of c

|Headline=Holiday Encroached by Round Ball, Long Ball, Old Cat |Game=Round Ball,Long Ball,Old-Cat Games

|Headline=Manuscript Shows a Club-and-Ball Game with Stool-like Object ...name of cricket stem back to ancient games played with a curved stick and ball, starting with <i>la soule</i>, and evolving in England through stoolball .

...ins will be run to and from the base-ball grounds at fifteen cents for the round trip. Cincinnati Enquirer April 15, 1877</p> ...game would be played, and at once a train of seven cars full left for the ball park. Cincinnati Enquirer April 29, 1877</p>

...ch as cricket, football, swings, Punch and Judy, round-about horses, brace ball (sic), &c.”</p>