Rounders - Britain

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Game	Rounders - Britain
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Tags	1800s, Britain, Contemporary, post-1900
Description	Rounders was first described in the late 1820s.  Current researchers believe that the game was similar to English base ball, which had been described almost 80 years earlier, but it is clearer that rounders employed a bat than that English ball did. Rounders in the 19th Century generally resembled the game that Mass game; overhand throwing, plugging, etc.  Rounders is now played in British schools, often by young women.
Sources	The earliest reference to English rounders is in Clarke, W., Boy’s Own Book (London, Vizetelly Branston, 1828, second edition.
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