oină
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Oină () is a Romanian traditional bat-and-ball game, similar in many ways to baseball.
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It sits within the topics Ball and bat games, Sport in Romania and Sports originating in Romania.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Oină
- Sport.image
- File:TimbruOina.png
- Sport.imagesize
- 250px
- Sport.union
- Romanian Oină Federation
- Sport.first
- 1364 (first documented)1899 (modern rules)
- Sport.team
- 11 per side
- Sport.contact
- Yes, players are hit with the ball, but no body contact
- Sport.category
- Outdoor
- Sport.ball
- Oină ball
- Sport.venue
- Oină pitch
- Sport.olympic
- no
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Pitch
- Players
- Scope of the game
- Rules
- Scoring
- In game
- Competition
- Ball
- Comparison with baseball
- Competitions in Romania
- Internationalising Oină
- See also
- References
- External links
Oină () is a Romanian traditional bat-and-ball game, similar in many ways to baseball.
==History== The name "oină" was originally "hoina", and is derived from the Cuman word oyn "game" (a cognate of the Turkish oyun).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “oină” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.