Oina
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Game | Oina |
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Game Family | Baseball |
Location | Romania |
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Description | A game played in Romania, reportedly traced back to a shepherd’s game, Hoina, played in southern Romania from the year 1310. The game is described as involving two 11-player teams that alternate batting as in a one-innings game of cricket. The pitch is a soft toss. One 1990 report[134] says that there are nine bases set out over 120 yards, that the defensive team can score on tagging and plugging putouts, and that there were over 1500 teams throughout Romania, mostly in rural areas. That account describes a ball the size of a baseball and a bat resembling a cricket bat. A second report from 1973[135] describes the ball as small, and the bat only a little thicker than a billiard cue, and that if a runner deflects a thrown ball with the palms, he is not put out. Note: Protoball’s only evidence on oina comes from the two western news accounts provided in the Hall of Fame’s “Origins of Baseball” file. |
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