Liverpool

tanwo at hotmail.com 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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