rounders
Sign in to saveRounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a batting and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a cylindrical end. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.
Key facts
- Sport.image
- Game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, 1913.jpg
- Sport.caption
- A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.
- Sport.union
- Rounders England (England), GAA Rounders (Ireland), a division of the Gaelic Athletic Association
- Sport.team
- 2 teams of 6–15
- Sport.first
- Great Britain and Ireland, 1500s (unified rules 1884)
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- History
- Rules
- Rounders England-specific rules
- GAA-specific rules
- Comparison with softball and baseball
- See also
- References
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Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a batting and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a cylindrical end. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.
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 The name baseball was superseded by the name rounders in England, while other modifications of the game played elsewhere retained the name baseball. The game is popular among British and Irish school children, particularly among girls. , rounders is played by an estimated seven million children in the UK.