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[Alice Faber]

On 3/16/12 1:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> On Mar 16, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> On 3/16/2012 3:47 AM, W Brewer wrote:
>>
>>> <<<   still a debate over whether the Chinese or the English invented the
>>> game>>>
>>>
>>> WB:  We also invented the game at St James Elementary School, Mt Ranier MD,
>>> circa 1955. We called it kickball, and rules were determined by the biggest
>>> kid in the parking lot.
>>
>> We played kickball at Chevy Chase elementary in Toonerville (Atwater
>> district, Los Angeles) in the late 1940s -- rules similar to softball,
>> as modified by circumstances,
>
> In all the versions of kickball I remember playing (early-mid 1950s, NYC), you can retire a runner by hitting them with the ball (between bases).  Such throws are frowned upon in softball.
Also early 60s in the suburbs.


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