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|Description=<p>a game defined in the OED as “a game similar to Rounders in which a ball is hit with the flat of the hand.” The game is mainly associated with the English North Country, and is said to feature three or four ‘tuts,’ or stopping-places. The first cited use appeared in 1796. Gomme (page 45) adds that if the batter-runner is hit before reaching on of the “tuts” he is “said to be <em>burnt</em>, or out.</p> | |Description=<p>a game defined in the OED as “a game similar to Rounders in which a ball is hit with the flat of the hand.” The game is mainly associated with the English North Country, and is said to feature three or four ‘tuts,’ or stopping-places. The first cited use appeared in 1796. Gomme (page 45) adds that if the batter-runner is hit before reaching on of the “tuts” he is “said to be <em>burnt</em>, or out.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span>Alice Bertha Gomme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2 (New York: Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898], 1964)<span>, page 45.</span></p> | |Sources=<p><span>Alice Bertha Gomme, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2 (New York: Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898], 1964)<span>, page 45.</span></p> | ||
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|Comment=<p>David Block in Pastime Lost posits that "pize-ball" and "tut-ball" were regional names for English baseball. I would toss in that "pize-ball" may well be a rounded-down form of dialectical "pizin-ball" i.e. poison-ball, which calls to mind the French <em>la balle empoisonnee</em> or Poison Ball: a very similar game where, again, the ball was swatted with the hand. --W C Hicklin</p> | |||
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Revision as of 20:30, 5 March 2022
| Game | Pize Ball |
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| Game Family | Kickball |
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| Eras | Predecessor |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | a game defined in the OED as “a game similar to Rounders in which a ball is hit with the flat of the hand.” The game is mainly associated with the English North Country, and is said to feature three or four ‘tuts,’ or stopping-places. The first cited use appeared in 1796. Gomme (page 45) adds that if the batter-runner is hit before reaching on of the “tuts” he is “said to be burnt, or out. |
| Sources | Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 2 (New York: Dover [reprint -- original publication 1898], 1964), page 45. |
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| Comment | David Block in Pastime Lost posits that "pize-ball" and "tut-ball" were regional names for English baseball. I would toss in that "pize-ball" may well be a rounded-down form of dialectical "pizin-ball" i.e. poison-ball, which calls to mind the French la balle empoisonnee or Poison Ball: a very similar game where, again, the ball was swatted with the hand. --W C Hicklin Edit with form to add a comment |
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