The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 83
Prince of Wales are said to haveplayed Base Ball, and in 1798 BASE BALL 74 BATTLEDORE, ETC. Miss Austen in one of her novelsspeaks of a game of the same nameas being played by girls. A game of Base Ball is still played in Eng-land, by little girls, in which thestriker hits the ball with her… … Club Ball in the 14th Century. called Rounders. It has been saidmany times that American BaseBall is derived from Rounders, butsome writers deny this, and the onlyground for the assertion seems to bethe similarity of the games, whichhave, very likely, a common origin. Similar games are favorites in…
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