Jellal

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Game	Jellal
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Egypt
Regions	Rest of World
Eras	1800s, Predecessor
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Description	Lowth (1855) describes Jellal, encountered among the people of Upper Eqypt, as resembling “in some of its parts our old game of Rounders” as he knew it in England. There was hitting and “getting home,” but a difference that he noted was that one boy hit the ball and another ran.
Sources	G. T. Lowth, The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), pages 108-110.
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