Thread: "New Marlboro Match Base Ball Game" Rules & Diagram
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Old 11-18-2008, 08:56 PM
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Default "New Marlboro Match Base Ball Game" Rules & Diagram
Posted By: Anonymous

I was one of the under bidders on this item so I have some idea what the "icing" may be, In any event I beleive that this is a townball/rounders varient. Below I have posted to contemporary diagrams which seem to show a similar game. The first is for a game titled rounders and is from "The Encyclopidea of Rural Sports" (1874). The second is for a game titled townball or rounders and is from the "American Boy's Book" (1864).





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