Lapta

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Game Lapta
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Location Russian
Description Varying accounts of this game are found. It is claimed that evidence places a form of the game to the time of Peter the Great, and bats and leather balls date back to the 1300s. One 1989 news article reports that it is now strictly a children’s game.[111] Still, some Russians say that “baseball is the younger brother of baseball.”[112] In contemporary play, the fielding team’s “server” stands next to a batter and gently tosses a ball up to be hit. After the hit, runners try to run to a distant line [one 1952 account calls this the “city”] and back without being plugged. Caught fly balls are worth a point, but a successful run is two points. A time clock governs a game’s length. [113]
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