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"Boy';s Treasury" Describes Rounders, Feeder, Stoolball, Etc.
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| Game | Rounders, StoolballRounders, Stoolball |
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| Text | The Boy's Treasury, published in New York, contains descriptions of feeder [p. 25], Rounders [p. 26], Ball Stock [p. 27], Stool-Ball [p. 28], Northern Spell [p. 33] and Trap, Bat, and Ball [p 33]. The cat games and barn ball and town ball are not listed. In feeder, the ball is pitched from a distance of two yards, and he is the only member of the "out" team. There is a three-strike rule and a dropped-third rule. The Rounders description says "a smooth round stick is preferred by many boys to a bat for striking the ball." Ball Stock is said to be "very similar to rounders." In stool ball, "the ball must be struck by the hand, and not with a bat." The rules for rounders ae fairly detailed, and include the restriction that, in at least one circumstance, a fielder must stay "the length of a horse and cart" away from baserunners when trying t plug them. For feeder and rounders, a batter is out if not able to hit the ball in three "offers." Feeder appears to follow most rounders, playing but takes as scrub form (when any player is put he, he becomes the new feeder) and not a team form; perhaps feeder was played when too few players were available to form two teams.
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| Sources | The Boy's Treasury of Sports, Pastimes, and Recreations (Clark, Austin and Company, New York, 1850), fourth edition. |
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| Query | We have scant evidence that rouunders was played extensively in the US; could this book be derivative of an English pubication? Do we know when the first edition of this book appeared? Edit with form to add a query |
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1847.13 "Boy';s Treasury" Describes Rounders, Feeder, Stoolball, Etc."
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