The rhyme refers to the ball being hit, the boy running to the next post, and then home to score. HistoryĪ Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), included an illustration of base-ball, depicting a batter, a bowler, and several rounders posts. A batter is out if the ball is caught if the base to which they are running is touched with the ball or if, while running, they are touched with the ball by a fielder. The batter must strike at a good ball and attempt to run a rounder in an anti-clockwise direction around the first, second, and third base and home to the fourth, though they may stay at any of the first three. Points (known as 'rounders') are scored by the batting team when one of their players completes a circuit past four bases without being put 'out'. Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. As of 2015 rounders is played by seven million children in the UK. The game is popular among British and Irish school children, particularly among girls. The name baseball was superseded by the name rounders in England, while other modifications of the game played elsewhere retained the name baseball. Played in England since Tudor times, it is referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called Base-Ball. The players score by running around the four bases on the field. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic, or metal bat. Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders England (England), GAA Rounders (Ireland), a division of the Gaelic Athletic Association A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.

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