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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1858
|Year Number=23
|Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs
|Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs
|Year=1858
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Chapbooks for Juveniles,
|Game=Rounders
|Game=Rounders
|Text=<p>George Forrest, <u>The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</u> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858]. Available via Google Books.</p>
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
<p>The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball. </p>
|Age of Players=Juvenile
<p>Among the features shown: when only a few players were available, backward hits were not in play; leading and pickoffs were used in rounders; the rounders bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <b>Note:</b> add page reference.</p>
|Text=<p>George Forrest, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games</span> [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.</p>
<p>The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball.</p>
<p>Among the features shown: when only a few players were available, backward hits were not in play; leading and pickoffs were used in rounders; the rounders bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed. <strong><br /></strong></p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=23
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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"The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Chapbooks for Juveniles
Game Rounders
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
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George Forrest, The Playground: or, The Boy's Book of Games [G. Rutledge, London, 1858, pp. 67-72]. Available via Google Books.

The manual covers rounders, cricket, and trapball - but not stoolball.

Among the features shown: when only a few players were available, backward hits were not in play; leading and pickoffs were used in rounders; the rounders bat is three feet long; two strikes and you're out in trapball; and when a cat is used in place of a ball in rounders, plugging is not allowed.

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