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History. A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), included an illustration of base-ball, depicting a batter, a bowler, and several rounders posts. The rhyme refers to the ball being hit, the boy running to the next post, and then home to score.
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rounders, old English game that never became a seriously competitive sport, although it is probably an ancestor of baseball. The earliest reference to rounders was made in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), in which a woodcut also showed the children’s sport of baseball.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Most baseball historians accept that their sport is evolved from rounders. Rounders is the name used by Jane Austen in her book “Northanger Abbey”. Following the “The Boy’s Own Book” of 1828 devoted a whole chapter to Rounders and in 1889 the Liverpool and Scottish Rounders Association was founded.
At first glance, Rounders bears a resemblance to baseball in its early stages, particularly the Massachusetts form of baseball that allowed “soaking” (being called out if hit by a thrown ball).
rounders. A bat-and-ball sport with English origins, rounders shares many similarities with baseball and is an ancestor of that game. Two teams take turns batting and fielding as they compete to score points, which are called rounders.
Jun 25, 2023 · Rounders - Britain. Rounders was first described in the late 1820s. Current researchers believe that the game was similar to English base ball, which had been described almost 80 years earlier, but it is clearer that rounders employed a bat than that English ball did.
Oct 24, 2012 · Contents. 1600c.2 Shakespeare Mentions Rounders? Pretty Doubtful. 1612c.1 Play Attributed to Shakespeare Cites Stool-ball. 1784.2 Seymour Notation Adverts to Evidence that Town Ball Was Exported to England. 1790s.3 Britannica: Stickball Dates to Late 18th Century? 1820c.6 Modified Version of Rounders Played in New England.
