Run-Around

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Game	Run-Around
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
Location	Massachusetts
Regions	US
Eras	1800s, Predecessor
Invented	No
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Description	A name given in some localities, evidently, to the game played in the Boston area in the early 19th century; it is possibly another name for what is elsewhere in New England recalled as Round Ball. Our single reference to this game comes from a letter written in 1905 by a Boston man.
Sources	See Protoball Chronology item #1855c.1. The letter was written to the Mills Commission, which was examining the origins of American baseball.
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Comment	The game of "run around" is also mentioned in the Sycamore (IL) True Republican, May 29, 1878 Edit with form to add a comment
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