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tamborine | 19:57 Fri 16th Apr 2021 | ChatterBank
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Why do players have to wear all that protective gear for a glorified game of rounders
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As far as I have seen batters only wear a helmet and thus somewhat less than batsmen. The catcher and umpire are directly in line of balls travelling at up to 100 mph so protection would seem to be indicated.
more to the point why is a game for school girls so popular in the US?
Quite TTT.

//so protection would seem to be indicated.//

Well maybe to the nether regions.
From wiki...

// Although much is unclear, as one would expect of children's games of long ago, this much is known: by the mid-18th century a game had appeared in the south of England which involved striking a pitched ball and then running a circuit of bases. "Base ball" was at least one name for this proto-baseball, although there may have been others. English colonists took this game to America with their other pastimes, and in the early 1800s variants were being played on both sides of the ocean under many appellations. However, the game was very significantly altered by amateur men's ball clubs in and around New York City in the middle of the 19th century, and it was this heavily revised sport that became modern baseball. //
A complete history here...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball
Still a game for school girls however you dress it.
Better tell all the men who've played it for several hundred years in one form or another ;)
How fast is an underarm rounders delivery?
Happy to Pasta.

Personally ~I preferred to play rugby - hooker.
Don't compare rounders with British baseball ...... the baseball bowling speeds were up to 100mph by the top male players. I know I have faced up to these speeds. Unfortunately British baseball ( south Wales and Liverpool) mens' game has disappeared in the last few years.
Indeed, Pasta. Only a wuss who's never played the game would think it's for girls... :-)
..... oh .... and in the British game the only person who wore protection was the backstop !
If I was facing a ball coming towards me at 80/90 mph I would rather wear protective headgear.
Rounders was bad enough for me, smashed specs, chipped cheekbones and two girls with broken noses - that was just one term.
Hmm, still not convinced. Still a girlie game IMHO.

Wonder how long they would last on the rugger field without all their protection?
Never thought of you as a bully Ma'am.
The question is about baseball and not rugby.

For the "experts" on here, how fast is a rounders delivery?
You'd be right then Shoota :-)
Fastest baseball pitch is 105 miles ph.
Can't find anything for rounders.

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