i have a new game to talk of too, Funball! over 50s and under 5s playing together , on a tennis, football, volleyball court, basketball etc. everyone has a ball, and simple objective, ether throw balls over the net, or kick balls into goal, or throw balls into height appropriate basket....
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football clubs here tend to start at 5, so this is a feeder sport, and gets over 50s bending down etc,
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working on fuller guidelines.
we are looking at forming The Vienna Funball! Association - having fun with balls, and The International Funball! Association - having more fun with balls
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We are planning to launch 6 a side kids rounders in the Prater Jesuitenwiese , Vienna, this afternoon, , would love you to be there 🙂
Its a variation of rounders, played once on the village green in Copthorne. All this version needs is a soft ball, hit by hand
Two teams of 6, three boys three girl target age 5 to 9 years, each innings they all hit the ball three times. No one gets "Out" but if a player is stumped while going around they join their team and wait for their next hit. Teams change roles after 3 hits, and games last 3 innings ( ? )
its new, its work in progress...
sample here of the game in action , slight variations in form and name acknowledged
videos:- ( coming )
"NigeSton Rounders" is inspired by both rounders and baseball5 , and the name was coined by Denis in Kenya, currently on loan as trainer and coach, training people in Kakuma, Kenya
Here. is Denis team in action in Kenya
- what could be easier than that !?
31.5.2023 PreMatch Prep in Vienna
personalising balls :-
Rounders:-
Rounders
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This article is about the game. For other uses, see Rounder.
Rounders
A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.
Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. 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. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.[2][3]
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in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called Base-Ball.[4] The name baseball was superseded by the name rounders in England, while other modifications of the game played elsewhere retained the name baseball.[5] The game is popular among British and Irish school children, particularly among girls.[6][7][8] As of 2015 rounders is played by seven million children in the UK.[9]
Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. 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'. 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.[6] 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.[6]
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), included an illustration of base-ball, depicting a batter, a bowler, and several rounders posts. The rhyme refers to the ball being hit, the boy running to the next post, and then home to score.
The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,[2] with the earliest reference[2][10] being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called base-ball.[11] In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.[12] The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts.[13]
The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated in Ireland by the GAA, through the GAA Rounders National Council (Irish: Comhairle Cluiche Corr na hÉireann). In Great Britain it is regulated by Rounders England, which was formed in 1943. While the two associations are distinct, they share similar elements of game play and culture. Competitions are held between teams from both traditions.
After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool, England; and Scotland in 1889. Both the 'New York game' and the now-defunct 'Massachusetts game' versions of baseball, as well as softball, share the same historical roots as rounders and bear a resemblance to the GAA version of the game. Rounders is linked to British baseball, which is still played in Liverpool, Cardiff and Newport. Although rounders is assumed to be older than baseball, literary references to early forms of 'base-ball' in England pre-date use of the term rounders.[5]
The satisfying ‘thwack’ as heavy ball meets wooden bat; the lush green field dotted with coloured cones, shining under the British summer sun; the grass-stained knees as you slide valiantly past fourth base.
— Claire Cohen of The Telegraph on the gameplay of rounders having played it as a girl.[9]
The game is popular game among British and Irish school children, especially among girls, and is played up to international level.[6][7][8] It is played by seven million children in the UK.[9]
