Round Town (Round Town Ball)

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Game	Round Town (Round Town Ball)
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	As played in Eastern PA in the 1850s this game[169] is recalled as having four or five bases or “safety spots,” tagging instead of plugging, the fly rule, the sharing of bases by multiple runners, and a bat made of a rail or clap-board. A game “similar to baseball” recalled[170] as being played by school boys in 1891 in a grove of trees in Beech Grove, Kentucky.
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