Bat-and-ball

Bat-and-ball redirects here. See also Bat & Ball railway station and Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield.

Bat-and-ball games (sometimes named safe haven games, to avoid confusion with the club-games like golf and hockey) are field games played by opposing teams; a player on one team puts a ball in play - usually by it being bowled or pitched - various constricted throws - and then batted - that is, struck with a bat - and becomes a runner, trying to advance to a marked "safe haven". As long as the runner maintains contact with this marker, he or she is safe from the other team. Leaving the safe area places the runner in danger of being "put out". In games with multiple safe havens, the goal of the runner is to ultimately reach the specially designated "home base".

Examples:

• Baseball - three bases and a home base
• Cricket - two wickets
• Kickball - four bases
• Bat-and-Trap
• The Massachusetts Game - four bases
• One (Two, Three, or Four) Old Cat - variable
• Pesäpallo - four bases
• Punchball - four bases
• Rounders - four bases or posts
• Scrub baseball - four bases (not a team game per se)
• Softball - four bases
• Stickball - variable
• Stool ball - two stools
• Town ball - variable

External links

• Project Protoball

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