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Game	Kick the Ball
Game Family	Kickball Kickball
Location	Brooklyn
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Description	per Culin (1891). A team game generally resembling Kickball, but using a small rubber ball. There is no plugging; runners are out if they are between bases when the fielding team returns the kicked ball to a teammate near home. No mention is made of fly outs. There is a three-out-side-out rule, and a game usually comprises four innings. Johnson (1910) lists Kick the Ball as a Baseball game.
Sources	Culin, "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn, N.Y.", pages 230-231. G. E. Johnson, What to Do at Recess (Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.
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 |Game Family=Kickball
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-|Description=<p>per Culin (1891).[101] A team game generally resembling Kickball, but using a small rubber ball. There is no plugging; runners are out if they are between bases when the fielding team returns the kicked ball to a teammate near home. No mention is made of fly outs. There is a three-out-side-out rule, and a game usually comprises four innings. Johnson (1910) lists Kick the Ball as a Baseball game.</p>
+|Description=<p>per Culin (1891). A team game generally resembling Kickball, but using a small rubber ball. There is no plugging; runners are out if they are between bases when the fielding team returns the kicked ball to a teammate near home. No mention is made of fly outs. There is a three-out-side-out rule, and a game usually comprises four innings. Johnson (1910) lists Kick the Ball as a Baseball game.</p>
 |Sources=<p><span>Culin, "Street Games of Boys in&nbsp;</span>Brooklyn,&nbsp;N.Y.<span>", pages 230-231.</span></p>
 <p><span><span>G. E. Johnson,&nbsp;</span><em>What to Do at Recess</em><span>&nbsp;(Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.</span></span></p>
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