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 players score by running around the four bases on the field.
Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a wooden, plastic, or metal bat that has a rounded end. Rounders is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders England (England), GAA Rounders (Ireland), a division of the Gaelic Athletic Association A game of rounders on Christmas Day at Baroona, Glamorgan Vale, Australia in 1913.
