Om El Mahag

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Game	Om El Mahag
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Libya
Regions	Rest of World
Eras	Derivative, Post-1900
Invented	No
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Description	In a 1939 account, Om El Mahag is described as elementary baseball, and said to be analogous to rounders and old-cat. It was reported that Om El Mahag was only played by the Berber tribes. Descriptions of the game are not detailed enough at this point to determine how it related, or relates, to base ball, long ball, or other early safe-haven games.
Sources	Ado Gini, "Rural Ritual Games in Libya," Rural Sociology 4, no. 1 (1939). Lidstrom and Bjarsholm, Batting, Running, and ‘Burning’ in Early Modern Europe: A Contribution to the Debate on the Roots of Baseball, International Journal of the History of Sport (2020), at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09523367.2020.1714597
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