rounders

Japanese: rounders
rounders

…However, when tracing the origins of baseball, it is clear that the word baseball was already found in J. Newbery's "The Pretty and Beautiful Pocket-book" for children, published in England in 1744. This refers to a children's game called "rounders," which was derived from cricket, and is thought to have been brought to America in the 18th century, just like cricket. In rounders, two teams of nine players each compete to round (go around four posts) using a ball and bats (sticks), with wooden sticks (posts) set up in a slightly modified position from the base of a baseball game. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "rounders" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,野球の起源をたどると,すでに1744年にイギリスで出版されたJ.ニューベリーの子ども向けの《かわいいきれいなポケットブック》の中にbase‐ballの語が出ていることが明らかになった。これはラウンダーズroundersという,クリケットから派生した子どもの遊びをさし,クリケット同様に18世紀にはアメリカにもちこまれていたと思われる。ラウンダーズは1チーム9人の2チームが,ボールとバット(スティック)を用いてラウンダー(四つのポストを一周すること)を争うもので,野球のベースをやや変形した位置に木の棒(ポスト)を立てる。…

※「rounders」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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