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|Term=Round Cat
|Term=Round Cat
|Game Family=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Description=<p>A game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief mentions of this game being played from Washington DC southward, but no explanation of how it was played. One account identifies it as similar to [[Scrub]] as played in New England.</p>
|Location=US South
|Game Regions=US
|Game Eras=1800s, Derivative
|Invented Game=No
|Description=<p>Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief mentions of this game being played from Washington DC southward, but no explanation of how it was played. One account identifies it as similar to [[Scrub]] as played in New England.</p>
|Sources=<p><em>Dialect Notes</em><span>&nbsp;(American Dialect Society, Norwood MA, 1896), page 214.</span></p>
|Sources=<p><em>Dialect Notes</em><span>&nbsp;(American Dialect Society, Norwood MA, 1896), page 214.</span></p>
<p><span>Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc."&nbsp;<em>Base Ball</em>&nbsp;(Spring 2011).</span></p>
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Game Round Cat
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Location US South
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Eras 1800s, Derivative
Invented No
Description

Round Cat is a game noted by Tom Altherr in September 2009. We find several brief mentions of this game being played from Washington DC southward, but no explanation of how it was played. One account identifies it as similar to Scrub as played in New England.

Sources

Dialect Notes (American Dialect Society, Norwood MA, 1896), page 214.

Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." Base Ball (Spring 2011).

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