Pentoss

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Game	Pentoss
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Regions	Britain
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Invented	No
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Description	Pentoss was reportedly a form of ladies' cricket. A picture in the W. W. Grantham collection at Lewes, England, shows a game seeming to resemble stoolball, but with wickets that look like round targets, held up by a post on either side of the 'target.' The bats are like smaller stoolball bats. A photographic image of a game in progress can be found with Google search of <"joshua biltcliffe" "ladies cricket">. There is no firm indication, at this point, of the time period of the geographic area of play.
Sources	Email from Anita Broad, of Stoolball England, 4/13/2013.
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