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Rounders ((アイルランド語:cluiche corr)) is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a rounded end wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field.〔(National Rounders Association – History of the Game ) in an Archive.org snapshot from 2007〕〔Alice Bertha Gomme, Traditional Games of England, Scotland and Ireland, Volume 2, 1898〕 The game is popular among Irish and British school children.〔(Rounders ) Encyclopædia Britannica〕〔(Rounders all-round show ) Gulf News. 3 March 2011〕 Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. A maximum of nine players are allowed to field at any time. Points (known as 'rounders') are scored by the batting team when one of their players completes a circuit past four bases without being put 'out'. ==History== The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,〔 with the earliest reference〔 being in 1744 in ''A Little Pretty Pocket-Book'' where it was called "base-ball" by John Newbery. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of ''The Boy's Own Book'', which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.〔David Block (2006) (Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game ) p.192. University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved 6 May 2011〕 The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts.〔(The Boys Own Book by William Clarke ) Maine Historical Society. Retrieved 7 May 2011〕 The first nationally formalised rules were drawn up by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland in 1884. The game is still regulated by the GAA in Ireland. In Great Britain it is regulated by Rounders England, which was formed in 1943. While the two associations are distinct, they share similar elements of game play and culture. Competitions are held between teams from both traditions, with games alternating between codes and one version being played in the morning and the other in the afternoon. After the rules of rounders were formalised in Ireland, associations were established in Liverpool and Scotland in 1889. Both the 'New York game' and the now-defunct 'Massachusetts game' versions of baseball, as well as softball, share the same historical roots as rounders and bear a resemblance to the GAA version of the game. Rounders is linked to British baseball, which is still played in Liverpool, Cardiff and Newport. Although rounders is assumed to be older than baseball, literary references to early forms of 'base-ball' in England pre-date use of the term ''rounders''. The game is now played up to international level. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「rounders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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