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tanwo at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 4 21:35:34 UTC 2001
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Pigwidgeon" <simon at b...> wrote:
> 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.
>
Didn't realise adults played it! The only time I ever played it was
at school ... do Americans ever play cricket?
I once played a rounders-like thing in the States with a big soft
ball - I *think* it was called snicker-ball????
> And as with a lot of sports. The English taught the world the game
> and then the world taught England how to play.
>
Sigh. If only we could turn the clock back a hundred years or so.
Wotan
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