hist-games: Baseball ancestor?

[Christian Joachim Hartmann]

At 14:34 21.09.98 +1000, Adelle Hartley wrote:
>	Without looking it up, this could just as easily be
>	an ancestor of cricket.
>
>	Adelle.

Of course, true!
Just rephrase all my questions with 'cricket' instead of
'baseball'. And since you widen the scope, I'd like to add
another question:

Is there a wider group of older European bat-and-ball games from
which grew cricket as well as baseball?

**       Christian Joachim Hartmann 
**       lukian at Null.net
**       christian.hartmann at uni-duesseldorf.de

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