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|Text=<p>"Writing in 1857, "Stonehenge" noted that 'it [rounders] was [p. 232/233] formerly a very favourite game in some of our English counties, but is now almost entirely displaced by cricket.' . . . documentary evidence of it is hard to find before the chapter in William Clarke's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boys' Own Book</span> of 1828."</p> | |Text=<p>"Writing in 1857, "Stonehenge" noted that 'it [rounders] was [p. 232/233] formerly a very favourite game in some of our English counties, but is now almost entirely displaced by cricket.' . . . documentary evidence of it is hard to find before the chapter in William Clarke's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boys' Own Book</span> of 1828."</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Tony Collins, et al., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports</span> (Routledge, 2005), pages 232- | |Sources=<p>Tony Collins, et al., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports</span> (Routledge, 2005), pages 232-233.</p> | ||
|Query=<p>Rounders made a comeback later, at least as a school yard game played mostly be femail players. Is it clear whether the game was played significantly among men and boys before 1857?</p> | |Query=<p>Rounders made a comeback later, at least as a school yard game played mostly be femail players. Is it clear whether the game was played significantly among men and boys before 1857?</p> | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | "Writing in 1857, "Stonehenge" noted that 'it [rounders] was [p. 232/233] formerly a very favourite game in some of our English counties, but is now almost entirely displaced by cricket.' . . . documentary evidence of it is hard to find before the chapter in William Clarke's Boys' Own Book of 1828." |
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