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|Term=Bunt
|Term=Bunt
|Game Family=Fungo
|Game Family=Fungo
|Description=Bunt is downsized baseball. One reported Massachusetts version[32] was a one-on-one game in which any hit ball that reached the not-distant field perimeter was an out. The batter ran out hit balls, and the pitcher fielded them, but thereafter base advancement was done by ghost [imaginary] runners. Terrie Dopp Aamodt reports playing a similar[33] game as an adolescent girl.
|Description=<p>Bunt is downsized baseball. One reported Massachusetts version[32] was a one-on-one game in which any hit ball that reached the not-distant field perimeter was an out. The batter ran out hit balls, and the pitcher fielded them, but thereafter base advancement was done by ghost [imaginary] runners. Terrie Dopp Aamodt reports playing a similar game as an adolescent girl.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>C. Bevis, &ldquo;A Game of Bunt,&rdquo; in G. Land,&nbsp;</span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span>&nbsp;(UNebraska, 2004), pages 128-130.</span></p>
<p><span><span>T. Aamodt, &ldquo;The Impossible Dream,&rdquo; in G. Land,&nbsp;</span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span>&nbsp;(UNebraska, 2004), pages 61-62.</span></span></p>
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Bunt is downsized baseball. One reported Massachusetts version[32] was a one-on-one game in which any hit ball that reached the not-distant field perimeter was an out. The batter ran out hit balls, and the pitcher fielded them, but thereafter base advancement was done by ghost [imaginary] runners. Terrie Dopp Aamodt reports playing a similar game as an adolescent girl.

Sources

C. Bevis, “A Game of Bunt,” in G. Land, Growing Up with Baseball (UNebraska, 2004), pages 128-130.

T. Aamodt, “The Impossible Dream,” in G. Land, Growing Up with Baseball (UNebraska, 2004), pages 61-62.

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