Game Glossary Term Edit: Long Ball (European baserunning 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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Game Family:	FungoBaseballHat ballHook-em-snivyKickballScrub
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Eras:	1700s  1800s  Contemporary  Derivative  Post-1900  Pre-1700  Predecessor
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Description:	<p>Maigaard sees Long Ball as the oldest ancestor of rounders, cricket and baseball, a game that was played in many countries. Long Ball is described as using teams of from 4 to 20 players. It involved a pitcher, batter, and an &ldquo;out-goal&rdquo; or base that the batter-runner tried to reach after hitting (or after missing a third swing) and without being plugged. Caught flies signaled an immediate switch between the in-team and the out-team. Many members of the in-team could share a base as runners. Runs were not counted, as the objective was to remain at bat for a long period. A 1914 US text describes Long Ball in generally similar terms, but one that uses a regular "indoor baseball." There is a single&nbsp;base to run to, scoring by runs, a three-out-side-out rule, and no foul ground. Plugging is allowed.</p> <p>A weblog written in the Australian outback in 2007 described a version of contemporary Long Ball. Modern variants of Long Ball are still played on a club or school basis, including Danish Longball in Denmark and England, <em>Schlagball</em> in Germany and Silesia and <em>Palant</em> in Poland.</p>
Sources:	<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games,"&nbsp;</span><em>Genus</em><span>&nbsp;5&nbsp;</span>(1941)<span>.&nbsp; Reprinted as Appendix 6 in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span> (U. Nebraska, 2005), pages 260ff.</span></p> <p><span><span>Henry S. Curtis,&nbsp;</span><em>Play and Recreation for the Open Country</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(Ginn, 1914)<span>. pages 62-63.</span></span></p>
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