Rounders

:For the movie of the same name, see Rounders (movie)

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Rounders is a sport which originated in Ireland. A team consists of a maximum of 15 players and a minimum of 6 of whom no more than 9 may be on the field at one time. http://www.nra-rounders.co.uk/rules.html The teams try to score points ("rounders") by completing a circuit of posts. The sport is very old and it has been documented as early as the seventeenth century. Baseball and softball evolved from rounders (see origins of baseball); the earliest literary mention of rounders calls the game "base-ball". The chief differences between rounders and baseball or softball are:

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• the rounders bat is much shorter than a baseball or softball bat, and is usually swung one-handed.
• there is no foul territory.
• balls and strikes aren't called, so there are no walks or strike-outs.
• posts are sometimes used instead of bases made of stuffed fabric (but in school playing areas the bases are usually just painted on the asphalt surface)
• the circuit of posts has a different shape – the final post in the circuit is not in the same place as the spot where the batsman stands
• as it is today considered a child's game the distance between posts is much shorter (12 m) than the distance between bases in either baseball or softball.

Irish rounders is an Irish version of the game which is very similar to softball, the chief difference being that the distance between bases is 90 ft (27.4 m), as in baseball, rather than 60 ft (18.3 m).

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