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Fwd:Fri: Baseball - was legal opinionFrom: RModugno@aol.comSat Feb 25 10:04:19 2006
History Rounders is, almost unquestionably, baseball's immediate ancestor. Primarily a boys' sport in England, it was mentioned, along with baseball, in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, and the sport was explained in detail in the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, published in 1828. It's quite likely that both rounders and cricket evolved from stoolball, though there's no direct evidence that they did. Henry Chadwick, a native of England who became the first newspaper writer to cover baseball, wrote a historical piece for Spalding's Baseball Guide in 1903, in which he asserted that baseball had derive from rounders. The assertion angered his publisher, A. G. Spalding, who insisted that baseball must be a thoroughly American sport. Spalding called for a commission to investigate the origins of "the great American pastime," and it was this commission that decided in 1907 that Abner Doubleday had invented the sport. So Chadwick's undoubtedly true statement ironically led to the creation of a total myth. Incidentally, Spalding should have known better. He was among a group of baseball players who visited England in 1874, when English spectators and sportswriters all recognized the "American" sport as a variation on rounders. And in 1889 Spalding was on an American team that played a game against a champion English rounders team in Liverpool. The Scottish Rounders Association was founded in 1889 and a National Rounders Association was established in England in 1943. However, rounders remains primarily a sport for schoolboys and schoolgirls. X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 2340 In a message dated 2/24/2006 4:43:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, GA12L@aol.com writes: Thanks Gerald. I don't know a thing about baseball. Do we have anything similar in the UK does anyone know? Gail Yeah, rounders. Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG Marietta, GA
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