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Shakespeare’s voice still echoes in sport

Edit Taipei Times 23 Apr 2016
He is the cleanup hitter of the English language, the sultan of sonnet and song. William Shakespeare died 400 years ago yesterday, an anniversary marked across the “sceptered isle” and across the pond. And sports, like much else, is in Shakespeare’s debt. Games were clearly part of his works, and of his age ... Maybe the closest is Vin Scully ... “Stoolball” was played in Shakespeare’s day and might have been a forerunner to baseball ... ....

400 years later, Shakespeare's voice still echoes in sports

Edit Yahoo Daily News 22 Apr 2016
He's the cleanup hitter of the English language, the sultan of sonnet and song. William Shakespeare died 400 years ago Saturday, an anniversary marked across the "sceptered isle" and across the pond. And sports, like much else, is in Shakespeare's debt. Games clearly were part of his works, and of his age ... It was a big favorite of Queen Elizabeth I ... "Stoolball" was played in Shakespeare's day and may have been a forerunner to baseball ... ....

Why Can’t American Women Play Baseball?

Edit The Daily Beast 25 Jun 2015
The news that a 16-year-old Frenchwoman—not an American—is now eligible to play professionally in the U.S. is a stark reminder of the throwback exclusivity of our national pastime. Major League Baseball is increasingly closer to having its first female professional ballplayer, thanks to Melissa Mayeux ... Stoolball, a game played by Sussex milkmaids centuries before baseball hit the U.S., is considered one of forebears of the sport ... ....

Will your Business ‘Rise to the Challenge‘ by entering the Set4Success Sporting Challenges 2015? (Horsham District Council)

Edit noodls 01 Apr 2015
(Source. Horsham District Council). Are you the organisation with the best all round Sporting capabilities in the Horsham area? Are you winners? Do you just love a challenge and a bit of fun? ... The challenges will run from April until November ... This year the sports include Darts, Indoor Bowling, Snooker and Stoolball with plans in hand to add 5-a-side soccer in the autumn (details to follow) and possibly Shuffleboard ... Darts ... 7pm ... Stoolball....

Ethics: On Thanksgiving, be thankful for liberty

Edit Fresno Bee 15 Nov 2014
We should be thankful that the Pilgrims are not in charge of Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims condemned sports and other recreations along with idleness, gluttony and drunkenness. They celebrated modesty, frugality and hard work. One Pilgrim, William Bradford, recounted an incident in which some men refused to work on Christmas Day. Those slackers spent Christmas playing “stoolball” — an ancestor of cricket ... ....

How Home Plate Lives Up to Its Name

Edit Yahoo Daily News 31 Mar 2014
The name “baseball” tells us which objects are important to it. There’s the ball, and there are the bases. Pretty straightforward. Nowadays the ball gets most of the attention ... The ball, it seems, get’s all the play ... Named First, Second, Third, and Home, the bases separate baseball from other, similar ball games—games like stoolball, rounders, and cricket. The bases create much of the sport’s drama ... The bases are important ... Home ... View photo....

Bizarre activities covered by travel insurance

Edit Stuff 28 Feb 2014
It's good to know, when you're travelling, that any injuries you sustain while playing air guitar will be covered by your travel insurance. Likewise stilt walking, cheerleading and dodge ball; vital elements of any overseas trip, I would have thought ... (I discovered Tchoukball is an international sport, stoolball is a game once played by milkmaids and Capoeira somehow involves dancing and doing martial arts at the same time.) ... ....

Air guitar, stiltwalking and dodgeball: bizarre activities covered by travel insurance

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 27 Feb 2014
... international sport, stoolball is a game once played by milkmaids and Capoeira somehow involves dancing and doing martial arts at the same time.)....
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