"Base ball"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/19/2010 01:59 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>    Hit-on-the-ground [teams] -- lacrosse, hockey, polo, shinty

Lacrosse would better be classified as "throw in the air
[teams]".  If the ball is on the ground it is subject to
contention.  And it's not really hit, but hurled.

>           (Which leaves golf as an outlier, but then it originated in
>Scotland.)

Why isn't golf "Hit-on-the-ground [individual, or pairs of participants]"?

Joel

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