Chermany

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Game	Chermany
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	In an email of 12/10/2008, Tom Altherr tells of the game of chermany, defined in a 1985 dictionary[48] as “a variety of baseball.” Early usage of the term dates to the 1840s-1860s. Two sources relate the game to baseball, and one, a 1912 book of Virginia folk language, defines it as “a boys’ game with a ball and bats.” We know of but eight references to chermany [churmany, chumny, chuminy] as of October 2009. Its rules of play are sketchy. A Confederate soldier described it as using five or six foot-high sticks as bases and using “crossing out” instead of tagging or plugging runners to retire them.
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