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|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat
|Headline=Dutch Handbook for Boys Covers "Engelsch Balspel," Trap-ball, Tip-cat
|Year=1853
|Year=1853
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Salience=2
|Game=Rounders
|Game=Rounders
|Text=<p><u>Dongens! Wat zal er gespeld worden?</u> (Boys! What Shall We Play?) [Leeuwarden, G. T. N. Suringar], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 215.  A 163-page book of games and exercises for young boys, which Block finds is "loaded with hand-colored engravings."  The book's section on ball games includes a translation of the 1828 rounders rules from <u>The Boy's Own Book</u> (see 1828 entry, above), under the heading <i>Engelsch balspel</i> (English ball).  A second game is <i>De wip</i> (the whip), a kind of trap ball.  Also <i>De kat</i>, which Block identifies as English tip-cat.</p>
|Text=<p><u>Dongens! Wat zal er gespeld worden?</u> (Boys! What Shall We Play?) [Leeuwarden, G. T. N. Suringar], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 215.  A 163-page book of games and exercises for young boys, which Block finds is "loaded with hand-colored engravings."  The book's section on ball games includes a translation of the 1828 rounders rules from <u>The Boy's Own Book</u> (see 1828 entry, above), under the heading <i>Engelsch balspel</i> (English ball).  A second game is <i>De wip</i> (the whip), a kind of trap ball.  Also <i>De kat</i>, which Block identifies as English tip-cat.</p>
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Dongens! Wat zal er gespeld worden? (Boys! What Shall We Play?) [Leeuwarden, G. T. N. Suringar], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 215. A 163-page book of games and exercises for young boys, which Block finds is "loaded with hand-colored engravings." The book's section on ball games includes a translation of the 1828 rounders rules from The Boy's Own Book (see 1828 entry, above), under the heading Engelsch balspel (English ball). A second game is De wip (the whip), a kind of trap ball. Also De kat, which Block identifies as English tip-cat.

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