Thèque

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Game	Thèque
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	France
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Eras	Predecessor
Invented	No
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Description	Block discusses whether Thèque belongs on the list of baseball’s predecessors. Thèque is an old Norman game, but there are evidently few descriptions of the game before baseball and rounders appeared. He cites an 1899 depiction of the game that shows five bases, plugging, and the pitcher belonging to the in-team, but otherwise resembles baseball and rounders. Block concludes that there is insufficient evidence to say whether Thèque came before or after the English counterpart game.
Sources	Block, David, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005)., pages 147-148.
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Comment	See the article on Theque in the Origins Committee Newsletter, May, 2021. [ba] Edit with form to add a comment
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