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|Headline=British Sports Anthology Shows Evolved Rounders, Other Safe Haven Games |Game=Rounders

|Headline="The Playground" Gives Insight into Rounders, Trap-ball, and Cricket Rules and Customs |Game=Rounders

|Headline=New "Original and Unusual" Manual Has New Slants on Rounders, Trap-ball |Game=Rounders

|Headline=Shakespeare Mentions Rounders? Pretty Doubtful |Game=Rounders

|Headline=Englishman's Book of Games Refers to Rounders, Feeder |Game=Rounders

|Headline=<u>Games and Sports</u> Covers Rounders, Feeder, Trap-ball, Northern Spell |Game=Rounders

|Headline=London Magazine Covers "Games with a Ball," Including Stoolball, Tip-Cat |Game=Rounders

|Headline=Halliwell&#39;s 960-Page Dictionary Cites Base-ball, Rounders, Tut-ball |Game=Rounders

|Term=Irish Rounders ...gs. The game is played without gloves and, perhaps unique among safe-haven games, batted balls caught in the air are not outs.</p>

|Term=Rounders -- Hungary |Description=<p>This game resembles contemporary British rounders. The bases form a regular pentagon, a pitcher stands at its center, fly bal

|Headline=Rounders Reported at Swiss School |Game=Rounders

|Headline=London Book Describes Two Rounders Variants |Game=Rounders

|Headline=Baseball's Resemblance to English Rounders Discussed |Game=Base Ball, Irish Rounders,

...thinking about trying the ancient Russian game of lapta, and perhaps Irish rounders, in the spring.</p>

...r of the glad event. The school children were engaged in games of cricket, rounders, base-ball, &c., with their teachers for the morning, and at 12 o'clock som |Block Notes=<p>Another example of baseball and rounders played side by side. Oakley, near Basingstoke, is less than three miles fro

|Headline="Boy's Treasury" Describes Rounders, Feeder, Stoolball, Etc. |Game=Rounders, Stoolball,

...arty strolled about the field, or joined merrily in a game of bass-ball or rounders, or sat in the bower, listening to the song of birds."</p> ...e two distinct games. The author's use of the singular "game" rather than "games" is stylistic, as shown by his use of the singular "song" in the sentence's

...ments of the party began in earnest, with various sports, such as cricket, rounders, baseball, egg in hat, paper chases, &c., interspersed with songs, 'March o ...eing played side by side, supporting the contention they were two distinct games. </p>

*[[English Rounders, 1828|Rounders 1828]] *[[Feeder and Rounders, 1841|Feeder and Rounders 1841]]

|Headline=English Anthology of Games Puts "Squares" Among Safe-Haven Ballgames |Game=Rounders

|Game=Rounders ...gland and colonial Boston in North America called stoolball. All of these games were played on a field with bases, a ball, and one or more sticks. The mod

|Headline=New York Children&#39;s Pastimes Recalled: Old Cat, Rounders Cited ...nt lots, and nearby fields resounded with the immemorial games of old cat, rounders, hopscotch, I spy, chuck farthing and prisoner's base . . . . The Dutch in

|Headline=Didactic Novel Pairs "Bass-Ball" and Rounders at Youths' Outing |Game=Rounders, Bass Ball, Cricket,

|Headline=Text Perceives Rounders and Cricket, in Everyday French Conversations |Game=Cricket, Rounders

...ine=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games |Game=Cricket,Rounders

...ose in&nbsp;England&nbsp;as early as 1748, referring to a simple game like rounders, but usage in&nbsp;England&nbsp;died out, and was soon forgotten in most pa |Sources=<p><span>Gomme,&nbsp;<em>Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland, Volume 1</em>.2, page 146

...tion of the great dam. Now and then we hear, quite casually, of a game of 'rounders' or of a strange rough-and-tumble amusement called football; but . . . ther ...n warm weather students "tried to improve their skill at the rude game of "rounders," out of which, about 1860, baseball was beginning to evolve."&nbsp;&nbsp;&

...ing. A newspaper reported that “Cricket, base-ball and rounders, and other games were freely indulged in during the afternoon, while later in the evening a

...ve also been given for fixing some stones to act as bases for the games of rounders and base ball.”</p> ...and rounders are mentioned side-by-side, re-confirming they were separate games. </p>

...themselves in a selection of games, including cricket, trap and base ball, rounders, &c., while the merry-go-round of horses and carriages . . . specially enga

...ds of children will be deprived of that pure innocent pleasure which these games afford."</p> ...p>This reference is notable for linking baseball and rounders together as "games as old as cricket." Wandsworth Common today remains a major site for ball p

|Term=Unnamed Games - Hungarian |Description=<p>per Endrei and Zolnay. &ldquo;In Hungary several variants of rounders exist in the countryside.&rdquo; No other lead to these variants is provide

...reer; football, cricket, rounders, tick, leap-frog, prison-bars, and round games transformed the field into a vast arena of complicated struggles and emulat |Block Notes=<p>Clearly, tut-ball was considered a separate game from rounders in this locale. The “five towns” referred to in the title are fictional

..., Baserunning, English Rounders 1820-1870, Massachusetts Game, Predecessor Games

...merrier scenes, visited the recreation ground, where cricket, base, trap, rounders, swings, and the varied paraphernalia of the now almost forgotten fairs, we ...and rounders side-by-side is unusual, but confirms they were two separate games.</p>

|Game=Rounders ...he book's section on ball games includes a translation of the 1828 <strong>rounders</strong> rules from <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Own

...ir tea, “'the Mothers' entered with the greatest zest into some of the old games of their childhood—base ball, oranges-and-lemons, &c., and enjoyed them e |Block Notes=<p>Clear distinction between rounders and English baseball.</p>

|Headline=New York "Boys' Book" of Games Covers Stoolball, Rounders, Wicket |Game=Rounders,Stoolball,Wicket

|Title=Rounders: Baseball's True Origin? Rounders---Baseball’s True Origin?

...and ices could not be made fast enough to supply the demand, Base-ball and rounders were played very energetically by the High School girls; potato, egg and sp |Block Notes=<p>An example of English baseball and rounders played side by side. Interestingly, this entry and the one below comprise t

|Description=<p>A Scottish name for rounders as played by “Edinburgh street boys” in about 1880 and by schoolgirls i ...span>Amy Stewart Fraser, </span><em>Dae Ye Min’ Langsyne?: A Pot-pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood</em><span> (Routledge, 1975),</sp

...all. He describes the game in terms that seem similar to later accounts of rounders and base-ball in English texts. The game is described as one-out, side-out, ...an>. This roughly translates as: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Games for the Exercise and Recreation of Body and Spirit for the Youth and His Ed

...=Chadwick Agrees: The Parent of Base Ball is Two-Old-Cat . . . Not English Rounders, After All? ...Americans such as Ward who claimed an indigenous heritage from the Old Cat games."</p>

...sp; The 1898 source's description: "ball-bias, a running game much like '[[rounders]],' played with a ball."</p> ...whereas . . . ball-bias falls more in the bat-using category, alongside [[rounders]]."</p>

...p>Scotland - per MacLagan. The Scots name for the ordinary English game of Rounders. Pitched balls are struck by hand.</p> |Sources=<p><span> R. C. MacLagan, "Additions to 'the Games of Argyleshire'," </span><em>Folklore</em><span> 16, no. 1 </span>(1905)

...ver valley."&nbsp; You will note that he finds no pattern of prior use of 'rounders' in the US, even though many writers had suggested that that English pastim == List of Predecessor Games ==

...er he would consider if it would not be for the public advantage that such games should be allowed in some part of the Park appropriated for the purpose?” |Block Notes=<p>Use of the phrase “'rounders' or 'base ball'” could imply one of two possible intentions. The speaker

|Game=Unnamed Games - Czech, ...similar to rounders. The native claim that these games 'have remained the games of the Germanic peoples, and have won no popularity beyond their countries'

|Headline=British Book Shows Several Safe-Haven Games - Cricket, Rounders, Feeder, Nine Holes, Doutee Stool, and Stoolball <p>Rounders: "a most excellent game, and very popular in some of our English counties."

...ll mit Freyst&auml;ten (oder das englische Base-ball)" in a German book on games and sports. This is the earliest description of a game called baseball and ...to have been played with a bat. Glover came from the west of England where rounders first appeared.</p>

|Headline=Base-ball Listed Among Games Played in Suffolk ...ndy-wicket, and nine holes. <strong>Note:</strong>: But not trap-ball? Not rounders? Moor muses: "It is not unpleasing thus to see at a glance such a variety o

|Game=Tut-Ball, Rounders - Britain, ..., and the other went 'out' in her stead. This game is nearly identical to 'rounders.'"</p>

|Title=Rounders: A Game That "Gets No Respect" ...e who play it receive no such veneration. Indeed, for most of its history, rounders has rarely rippled the British national consciousness, and when thought abo

|Description=<p>per Dick, 1864. A team game like rounders, but having large safety areas instead of posts or bases. A feeder makes a ...German game, but in some respects resembles our favorite English sport of "Rounders." The players are divided into two parties; six bases are then marked out,

|Description=<p>a game defined in the OED as &ldquo;a game similar to Rounders in which a ball is hit with the flat of the hand.&rdquo; The game is mainly ...mme,&nbsp;</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of&nbsp;England,&nbsp;Scotland, and&nbsp;Ireland<em>, </em></span>Volume 2&

...pping, baseball, hoops, rounders, fox and hounds, and rings, are the usual games for the girls.”</p>

|Headline="Rounders" Said to be Played at Phillips Andover School |Game=Rounders, Massachusetts Game, Round Ball

...t Strutt views a game he calls "club ball" as the precursor to this set of games, but notes that modern scholars are skeptical about this proposition.</p>

...about local play in about 1870, describes a game called "roundstakes" or "rounders."</p> ...bore the closest resemblance to our modern baseball was "roundstakes" or "rounders."&nbsp; In some communities it was know (sic) as "townball."&nbsp; This gam

...accounts of evidence about town ball, the Massachusetts game, and English Rounders (<a href="../Essays">http://protoball.org/Essays</a>.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He

...“Children's Games, Pastimes and Amusements.” After a lengthy discussion of rounders, the writer added that “'Tutball' was a similar game in which the bat was

...1762. He also notes that a 1767 revision features engravings for the four games.</p>

|Description=<p>Maigaard (1941) notes they while most forms of rounders and longball are now lost, three - baseball, cricket, and bo-ball - remain |Sources=<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span>�

|Term=Rounders - Britain ..., which had been described almost 80 years earlier, but it is clearer that rounders employed a bat than that English ball did.</p>

...uo; according to the OED. OED identifies Tut-Ball with [[Stoolball]] and [[Rounders]].</p> ...so cites a view that &ldquo;This game is very nearly identical with &lsquo;rounders.&rsquo;&rdquo; Another writer is known to say that Tut-Ball is the same as

...rly as 1884.&nbsp; Howard&rsquo;s report appears in the &ldquo;Glossary of Games&rdquo; on the Protoball site at <a href="../Irish_Rounders_(Burman's_Report

|Description=<p>Maigaard (1941) notes they while most forms of rounders and longball were now lost, three - baseball, cricket, and bo-ball - remain |Sources=<p><span>Per Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” Genus 5 (1941).  Reprinted in Block, </span><span style="text-decora

...that Teque is related to Rounders and Baseball, and also claim that Teque/Rounders is the predecessor game to baseball. See the Origins Committee Newsletter, |Query=<p>Is it significant that this book features games for adolescents, not younger children?</p>

...s, published in London in 1653, where it is found enumerated as one of the games of the Gargantua."</p> ...re: club ball, stick ball, stoolball, horne billets, nine holes, hat ball, rounders, feeder, or base ball. <i>Francis Rabelais - Completely Translated into En

...ct games that have been labeled Touch-Ball. One was as a local synonym for Rounders, as recalled in an 1874 Guardian article written on the occasion of the 187

|Title=Irish Rounders (Burman's Report) |Related Pages=Irish Rounders

...: "<a title="Aipuni" href="Aipuni">Aipuni</a>, the Hawaiians called it, or rounders, perhaps because the bat had a larger rounder end.t was a a forerunner of b

{{Subtitle|A compilation of {{#ask: [[Category:Games]] | format = count }} games with a resemblance to baseball, most often using base-running and run-scori ...Games is dedicated to Francis Willughby (1635-1672), compiler of a Book of Games, an early member of the England's pathbreaking Royal Society, and perhaps n

...icially &ldquo;recognised&rdquo; stoolball as a national game, but (unlike rounders) it is not as yet supported with public funds.&nbsp;&nbsp;In August, the An ...during the last two Easter holidays; in Augusta, Maine, where re-enactment games have been played; in India, where ten states have joined the Indian Stoolba

...me of the English found their way down to us and we have since had several games."<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></p> ...e one trait in which they differ widely from us; they keep up their boyish games through life.&nbsp; [. . .] Cricket and Ball of all sorts is played in Engl

|Headline=Francis Willughby's "Book of Games" Surveys Folkways: Batting/Baserunning Game Described ...hornebillets, kit-cat, stowball, and tutball [but not cricket, trapball or rounders]. He died at 36 and the incomplete manuscript, long held privately, became

...)&nbsp;</em>The MLB.com crew spent a damp week filming games of stoolball, rounders, cricket, and trapball.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were times when a combination of e

...53 they were playing "base ball,' but the book suggests this was more like Rounders or MA ball. It was played informally by students, but in 1864, the first cl <p>The 1853 games were played in an open field in the rear of the Seminary buildings. One gam

<p>[] Generally, the game resembled English rounders, German schlagball, and early forms of base ball in the US: scoring was don ...ames), (Budapest, 1971), pages 149-152.&nbsp; A compilation of baserunning games (and their names) in about 60 locations within current Hungarian borders, w

<p>Author Martin Johns describes Welsh baseball as having evolved from rounders, and having been re-named baseball in 1892. It has been largely confined to ...ven-player teams, no foul ground, an all-out-side-out rule, and two-inning games.</p>

...Australian baseball players were probably playing a variation of cricket, rounders, and the New York Game and possibly counting each base attained as a run."<

...tle=Robin_Gracey">Robin Gracey</a>&nbsp;in 1990/91. It is a combination of rounders and cricket. Two teams participate, made up of form members from each class <p>There is a time limit for each team (I think these games were played during lunch hours but that may be wrong!) and at the end of th

...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte ..., often watched by small Mary Burbank. Aipuni, the Hawaiians called it, or rounders, perhaps because the bat had a large rounder end. It was a forerunner of ba

...he Book of Sports</u> by Robin Carver. Carver's book copies the rules for rounders published in England's "The Boy's Own Book" (see #1828.1 entry, above). A ...hem, which I believe to be the most popular with boys." [Page 37.] Other games describes are Fives, Nine-Holes, or Hat-Ball [a game with running/plugging

...escription, of "base-ball," on pages 247-248, appears to be modeled on the rounders page from The Boy's Own Book of 1828, but also makes clear that the players |Sources=<p>Jolly Games for Happy Homes, by Georgiana C. Clark, London, 1875 (est.), Dean & Son., p

|Description=<p>Maigaard sees Long Ball as the oldest ancestor of rounders, cricket and baseball, a game that was played in many countries. Long Ball |Sources=<p><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games,"&nbsp;</span><em>Genus</em><span>&nbsp;5&nbsp;</span>(1941)<span>.&nbsp; R

...wing [which still prevailed]. It originated apparently, in the old game of rounders. Up to 1862 there were two varieties of base-ball - the New York and the Ma ...ht wrote another version in James Lovett,&nbsp;<em>Old Boston Boys and the Games They Played</em> (Riverside Press, 1907). Accessed in Google Books.</p>

...s a British colony, and it is tempting to suppose that elle evolved from a rounders-like game, but Protoball has not seem such speculation.</span></p> ...ubs at play in Italy-- a country perhaps has less intrigued by baserunning games than most of the world's cultures are.</span></div>

|Title=What Was Rounders, Anyway? |Description=A Source-Based Description of Rounders Play

...as the leading athletic game on the campus. . . . [The] fiercely contested games drew many spectators from among the young ladies and aroused no common inte ..., often watched by small Mary Burbank. Aipuni, the Hawaiians called it, or rounders, perhaps because the bat had a large rounder end. It was a forerunner of ba

|Text=<p>Stool ball, a stick and ball game and a forerunner of rounders and cricket, is apparently mentioned in the Domesday Book as "bittle-battle ...le="text-decoration: underline;">Ball, Bat and Bishop: The Origins of Ball Games</span> [Rockport Press, 1947], p. 75.</p>

...n this fateful day, an eager collection of teenage girls enjoyed a game of rounders in front of an American film crew, and that crew itself was the subject of

...Australian baseball players were probably playing a variation of cricket, rounders, and the New York Game and possibly counting each base attained as a run."<

...rmany. &ldquo;German Schlagball (&lsquo;hit the ball&rsquo;) is similar to rounders.&rdquo; No other clues to schlagball&nbsp;are provided.</p> ..., W., and Laszlo Zolnay, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fun and Games in Old Europe</span>. Budapest, (Corvina Klado, 1986).</span></p>

...ho submitted this item to Protoball, observes, "Polo?&nbsp; Croquet? Golf? Rounders?&nbsp; I think it's interesting that the spot of the ball is marked at the ...marked at the end of the first day of play. Also, are there two different games here? At first, the young men are &ldquo;playing with the ball,&rdquo; but

...bore the closest resemblance to our modern baseball was "roundstakes" or "rounders."&nbsp; In some communities it was know (sic) as "townball."&nbsp; He recal ...es that he was in his teens when he first saw base ball.&nbsp; His old-cat games would have come in the mid-1860s.</p>

...d Kingdom had begun exploring and writing about early baseball and related games in England. Today the picture is a little different, and I am a bit disappo ...y diary. One day in 2007 when the MLB film crew was obtaining footage of a rounders match in Sussex, a local BBC television sports reporter showed up as well.

...ool appears to have been the most active rounders city and was home to The Rounders Reporter, a publication launched in 1885.<br> ...tockings and an All-America team in 1889. Both tours included games in the rounders hotbed of Liverpool.<br>

|Headline=Dutch Publication Covers "Engelsch Balspel," "Kat," Other Batting Games |Text=<p>John Thorn passed along text of a Dutch book of games printed in 1845.</p>

...nnis and fives, and &lsquo;Hildegarde&rsquo;, a hybrid of real tennis with rounders and cricket.</p> ..."(pseud)", <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>The New Out-door Games of Hildegarde and Ladies' Cricket</em> </span>(Macdougall and Son, Sheffiel