Aprettylittlepocketbook.jpg (367×543) Rounders. Rounders (Irish: cluiche corr) is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.[1][2] The game is popular among Irish and British school children.[3][4] Gameplay centres around a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. A maximum of nine players are allowed to field at any time.
Points (known as 'rounders') are scored by the batting team when one of their players completes a circuit past four bases without being put 'out'. History[edit] The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,[1] with the earliest reference[1][5] being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called "base-ball"[6] by John Newbery. The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884.
British baseball. Baseball used in an international match between Wales and England in 2006 British baseball, sometimes called Welsh baseball, or in the areas where it is popular simply baseball, is a bat-and-ball game played primarily in Wales and England. It is closely related to the game of rounders, and indeed emerged as a distinct sport when governing bodies in Wales and England agreed to change the name of the game from "rounders" in 1892. As a traditional bat-and-ball game, its roots go back much further, and literary references to baseball and rounders date back many centuries.
Differences between the British and North American games[edit] The sport differs in a number of ways from the internationally known game of baseball. Despite these similarities with cricket, the game is much more like baseball in style and operates on a near identical, but smaller, diamond. International Baseball Board[edit] The international match between England and Wales in 2006 The English (EBA) team The Welsh (WBU) team. Abner Doubleday. Early years[edit] One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.
Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball. Neither his letters nor his diaries nor his New York Times obituary ever mentions the game. In 1852, he married Mary Hewitt of Baltimore.[6] Military career[edit] Early commands and Fort Sumter[edit] Brigade and division command in Virginia[edit] Gettysburg[edit] Birthplace in Ballston Spa Doubleday and his wife, Mary. At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brigadier General John Buford. Doubleday's indecision as a commander in the war resulted in his uncomplimentary nickname "Forty-Eight Hours Washington[edit] Postbellum career[edit] In the 1870s, he was listed in the New York business directory as lawyer.
Doubleday spent much of his time writing. Theosophy[edit] Death[edit] Origins of baseball. The question of the origins of baseball has been the subject of debate and controversy for more than a century. Baseball and the other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, were developed from earlier folk games in England. Early forms of baseball had a number of names, including "Base Ball", "Goal Ball", "Round Ball", "Fletch-catch", "stool ball", and, simply, "Base". In at least one version of the game, teams pitched to themselves, runners went around the bases in the opposite direction of today's game, and players could be put out by being hit with the ball.
Then as now, a batter was called out after three strikes. Folk games in England[edit] A number of early folk games in England had characteristics that can be seen in modern baseball (as well as in cricket and rounders). Since they were folk games, the early games had no official, documented rules, and they tended to change over time. Stoolball[edit] Originally, the stool was defended with a bare hand.
British baseball.