Rounders
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Rounders 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 wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a rounded end. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.
A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.
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.
A game of rounders being played in Nowton, England
A batter is attempting to give a good hit
Softball
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Softball is a sport similar to baseball, and it is played with a larger ball on a smaller field and with only underhand pitches permitted. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hancock.
First photo of a softball team, Chicago, 1897
Indoor baseball player, 1907
A modern optic yellow softball