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Game	Ball-Paces
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Scotland
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Description	per Block.[10] The 1836 book Perth Traditions described Ball-Paces, by then almost extinct, as a game that used a trap to put a ball into play, at which point in-team runners at each of four bases run to the next bases, stopping only when the ball was returned to the original batsman’s station. There is no mention of plugging.
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-|Description=<p>per Block. The 1836 book <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Perth Traditions</span> described Ball-Paces, by then almost extinct, as a game that used a trap to put a ball into play, at which point in-team runners at each of four bases run to the next bases, stopping only when the ball was returned to the original batsman&rsquo;s station. There is no mention of plugging.</p>
+|Description=per Block.[10]  The 1836 book Perth Traditions described Ball-Paces, by then almost extinct, as a game that used a trap to put a ball into play, at which point in-team runners at each of four bases run to the next bases, stopping only when the ball was returned to the original batsman’s station.  There is no mention of plugging.
-|Sources=<p><span>David Block, email of 5/17/2005.</span></p>
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