Feeder

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per “The Boy’s Own Book.” A non-team form of rounders using three bases in which a player who is put out then takes on the role of feeder [pitcher]. An 1859 handbook describes feeder as a game with four or five stones or marks for bases. Plugging is permitted.

Sources

The Boy's Own Book(London: D. Bogue, 1852), page 29. See also Elliott, The Playground and the Parlour (1868), p. 53.

Comment

See also Feeder_and_Rounders,_1841, contributed by Bill Hicklin.

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