Stones

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Game	Stones
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Ireland
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Description	According to Gomme (1898), a game played in Ireland in about 1850, using either a ball or a lob-stick. A circle of about a half-dozen stones is arranged, one for each player in the in team. A member of the out team throws the ball/stick is thrown at one of the stones. If the defending player hits it, all members of the out team must move to another stone. The teams exchange places if a stone is hit, the ball/stick is caught, or a player is hit while running between stones.
Sources	A. B. Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (David Nutt, London, 1898), pages 216-217.
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