Rounders
Overview
 
Rounders is a game played between two teams of either gender. The game originated in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 where it was played in Tudor
Tudor period
The Tudor period usually refers to the period between 1485 and 1603, specifically in relation to the history of England. This coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England whose first monarch was Henry VII...

 times. Rounders is a striking and fielding team game that involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat. The players score by running around the four bases on the field. The game is popular among British and Irish schoolchildren.

Gameplay centres around a number of innings
Innings
An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...

, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding.
Quotations

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, then YOU are the sucker.

We're not playing together. But then again, we're not playing against each other either. It's like the Nature Channel|Nature Channel. You don't see piranhas eating each other, do you?

You've got to play the hand you're dealt.

In The Game Of Life... Play The Cards You're Dealt

Trust everyone... but always cut the cards

Pick a card, any card

It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money

 
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