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New British Manual of Sports Describes Rounders
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | EnglandEngland |
| City/State/Country: | England |
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| Game | RoundersRounders |
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| Text | An English sports manual includes a description and diagram of rounders that Block characterizes as "generally consistent with other accounts of rounders and pre-1845 baseball." This version of the game used a pentagon-shaped infield and counterclockwise base running. |
| Sources | Walsh, J. H. ("Stonehenge"), Manual of British Rural Sports (London, G. Routledge, 1855), per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 216. |
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1855c.8 New British Manual of Sports Describes Rounders"
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