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  2. Rounders - Wikipedia

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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. [2] [3]

  3. Origins of baseball - Wikipedia

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    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 – stoolball, cricket and rounders – were developed from folk games in early Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe (such as France and Germany).

  4. Rounders (film) - Wikipedia

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    Rounders is a 1998 American drama film about the underground world of high-stakes poker, directed by John Dahl and starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton. The story ...

  5. History of baseball - Wikipedia

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    References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England it was referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newberry, though he was actually referring to the game "rounders". In the early 1800s "baseball" and a game first mentioned in 1828 as the aforementioned "rounders" may have been the same or very ...

  6. Doubleday myth - Wikipedia

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    The Doubleday myth is the claim that the sport of baseball was invented in 1839 by the future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York.In response to a dispute over whether baseball originated in the United States or was a variation of the British game rounders, the Mills Commission was formed in 1905 to seek out evidence.

  7. History of sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, the emergence of lacrosse from stickball in the 1830s led to a shift away from these values. Also, in ancient Polynesia, especially in ancient Hawaii, Polynesian people have been surfing since at least the start of the 12th century. [3] Various Indigenous tribes engaged in running games that tested endurance and speed.

  8. History of baseball in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Initially, Wheaton and Tucker's innovations did not serve the Knickerbockers well. In the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 19, 1846, the "New York nine" (almost certainly the Gotham Club) humbled the Knickerbockers by a score of 23 to 1. Nevertheless ...

  9. The Rounders (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Rounders was an American Western-style sitcom about two cowboys on the fictitious J.L. Ranch in Texas. [1] Cast. Ron Hayes as Ben Jones; Chill Wills as Jim Ed Love;