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Game	Feeder
Game Family	Scrub Scrub
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Invented	No
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Description	per “The Boy’s Own Book.” A non-team form of rounders using three bases in which a player who is put out then takes on the role of feeder [pitcher]. An 1859 handbook describes feeder as a game with four or five stones or marks for bases. Plugging is permitted. As of 2023, the Protoball chronology has 10 items of the game of feeder. One, found at 1841.1, refers to clockwise baserunning.  David Block's Baseball before We Knew It, cites the game at pages 24,138-9, 153, 205,, 207, 284-5.
Sources	The Boy's Own Book, (London: D. Bogue, 1852), page 29. See also Elliott, The Playground and the Parlour (1868), p. 53.
Source Image	[[Image:|left|thumb]]
Comment	See also Feeder_and_Rounders,_1841, contributed by Bill Hicklin. Edit with form to add a comment
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