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|Age of Players=Unknown
|Age of Players=Unknown

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Rounders "Now Almost Entirely Displaced by Cricket:" English Scholar

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"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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Tony Collins, et al., Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports (Routledge, 2005), pages 232-233.

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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?

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