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  • The game of Rounders is comprised of two teams and involves hitting a small, hard, leather-cased ball with a round wooden, plastic or metal bat and then running around four bases in order to score.

    Five Reasons Baseball Isn't All That American... | myFiveBest 2010

  • Stanley Jerusalem ... you disapoint me, didn't you ever watch your sisaters play "Rounders" as a child!!!

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The screenplay is by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, a duo that's scripted such films as "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen."

    A Filmmaker Gets Real 2009

  • Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls game called Rounders which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.

    Think Progress » Report: Blair refuses to back Iran strike. 2006

  • Another good poker film is "Rounders", starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton.

    Filmstalker: Bana's Lucky You trailer online 2006

  • Fiction Fix Screenwriter David Levien ( "Ocean's 13," "Rounders," "Runaway Jury") makes his debut as an author with "City of the Sun," a thriller about a private detective and the case of a missing boy.

    Datebook 2008

  • VINCE: Well, I think there's two or three reasons, about four our five years ago, they came out with a movie with Matt Damon and Ed Norton called "Rounders".

    CNN Transcript May 23, 2004 2004

  • In the English game of "Rounders," the parent of baseball, a home-run hit either restores life to a man already out or provides the batting side with a life in reserve.

    Roving East and Roving West 1903

  • American origin further contended that those who would derive Base Ball from "Rounders" had totally ignored the earlier history of both games, and had been misled by certain modern developments of "Rounders," as more recently played in England, after many of the features of Base Ball had been appropriated by the English game.

    The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

  • For the great feature of "Rounders," from which it derives its name, is the "rounder" itself, meaning that whenever one of the "in" side makes a complete continuous circuit of the bases, or, as it would be called in Base Ball,

    The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

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