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I remember playing a game of this name in my British secondary school. It was played in the school gym, and was a cross between dodgeball and rounders. We used a football-sized foam ball, and the 'batter' used his hand to bat the ball. The aim of the game was to run to the other end of the hall without the ball being caught by a fielder, or being hit by the ball thrown by a fielder. If you ran to the end of the hall and immeadiately back, you scored a point; if you made your return run on another batter's run, you only scored half a point. I think only three batters were allowed to stay in the safe zone at the far end of the hall at any one time, if a fourth entered they would all be out. I wonder if anyone else knows anything about this game. --Gareth Hughes 16:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thats how i remembered it, thank for jogging my memory. I dont remember if we played with our hands or with a bat when i was doing it. But the ball can't have been very hard, what with kids playing it and all. I put all i could remember from it into the article. --Wonderfool t (c) 14:55, 28 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just played it for the first time in my life, just an hour ago. Amazing sport. I'll try and add some stuff. 80.43.44.91 15:04, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In relation to other sports

It's called here a hybrid baseball-cricket game, that may erroneously suggest the game was influenced by those sports. Hakluyt bean (talk) 12:10, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the version we played in school either used a football of some description or a baseball style bat and a softball (and yes, this is in the UK.) We were told it was an Australian game, and the pitch was absolutely massive. If you were taken out, you started playing for the other side and the version with a softball had to be a "touch" based catch, you weren't allowed to throw the ball. It got progressively harder a more people got "out". The winning "team" was the one who got the most players across after 1 or two times at bat. I forget the finer points, but that was it more or less Memsom (talk) 17:18, 29 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ball hitting ground or not

When I played this as a kid in Denmark (school, kindergarten, etc.) there was no rules about the ball hitting the ground in the field or not. At times the "field" was very loosely defined because it didn't really matter. What matters is the front and the back where you run. I think it's an addition to the rules, perhaps to make it more interesting. It's a variation though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.184.78.70 (talk) 14:59, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]