Liverpool

[Pigwidgeon]

Al: "Liverpool is ... well, undescribable really.  The Beatles are 
one of  few good things about it."

Everton being another.



Me: "I cannot find the really good description of cricket involving 
ins and outs."

Christian: "You are presumably talking about this one? <snip the 
actual description>"

Yes, but there is a much longer version of it.



Wotan: "Rounders is a baseball-like game played by school-children 
with a soft ball and a short bat (and coats piled up to make the 
bases). This allows us to (a) claim we invented baseball and (b) 
loftily dismiss it as a "children's game", thereby annoying any 
passing Yank. We can then return to the "beautiful" game of cricket, 
safe in the knowledge that we were once undisputed world masters at 
it ... up until other nations started playing cricket, that is!"

A rounders ball is not soft (at least none of the ones I have played 
with are). The game can be played with proper bases and many adults 
play it regularly. It is just not that popular or well known.

And as with a lot of sports. The English taught the world the game 
and then the world taught England how to play.


Pig