History of the Game:

Although the is no documented evidence, speculation runs high that rounders (and indeed cricket) first evolved from stoolball. Stoolball is a game played in a marked field with a bowler an batter.

Since tudor times the game of rounders has been played in England, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called baseball. Many baseball players accept that their sport is derived from rounders. Rounders is the name used by Jane Austen in her book "Northanger Abbey". Following the "The Boy's Own Book" of 1828 devoted a chapter to Rounders in 1889 the Liverpool and Scottish Rounders Association was formed. The first official rules did away with the practice of putting a running batter out by hitting them with a thrown ball.

Rounders remains primarily a sport for schoolboys and schoolgirls today but also attracts an active club following too.

Today rounders in it differnet forms is very popular sport. Baseball is widespread throughout North America and rounders (in its orginal form) is played by 2,000,000 school children in the UK.