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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>