Game Glossary Term Edit: Cerkelspelen (Circle-Game?)

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Baseball Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, a bat, pitching, and two distinct teams. Kickball Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and two distinct teams (but no batting). Scrub Safe-Haven games featuring running among bases, pitching, and a bat (but no teams). Fungo Games featuring batting/hitting (but no baserunning). Hat ball Games featuring baserunning and/or plugging (but no batting). Hook-em-snivy Games for which the rules of play are not known and, and some that are commonly encountered by researchers but that are not safe-haven games (including shinty, bandy, and stow-ball).

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Description:	<p>According to Maigaard, Cerkelspelen was “rounders without batting” as played in Flanders. The game evidently had five bases, with fielders near each one, but the infield area was occupied only by the in-team.</p>
Sources:	<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span> Appendix 6.</span><span>  </span><span>See page 263.</span></p>
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