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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.
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Aug 7, 2023 · Game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, 1913. One popular theory regarding the origins of baseball attributes its creation to the English games of rounders. Rounders dates back to the 16th century and involves players using a bat to hit a ball while running bases to score runs.
In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.
In 1828, William Clarke of London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the earliest known mention of a game called "rounders," and contains under that heading the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.
Mar 16, 2011 · In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England....
Mar 27, 2013 · Its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounders (a children’s game brought to New England by the earliest colonists) and cricket. By the time of the American Revolution,...
This resemblance led early baseball chroniclers such as English-born Henry Chadwick (the pioneer baseball reporter and Hall of Famer) to suggest that the game of baseball was based on English immigrants who brought Rounders with them to the New World.
