Punchball
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punchball-172-11415995
title:
Punchball
text:
Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat. The "batter" essentially plays "fungo" without a bat, bouncing or tossing up the ball and then using a volleyball-type approach to put the ball in play, punching the ball with his fist. Base stealing and bunting are not allowed. Popular in New York, especially among poor Jewish children who could not afford bats or baseballs, historian and baseball enthusiast Stephen Jay Gould referred to it as "the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Sport
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punchball
date created:
2006-07-18T01:47:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:24:13Z
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