The name baseball was superseded by the name rounders in England, while other modifications of the game played elsewhere retained the name baseball. 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.
