You will probably want to skip over all this incomprehensible newfangled "base-ball" stuff and get back to the rules of cricket, or rounders, or town ball, stool ball, tut ball, or old cat.
Or straight back to the old French games of la soule, thèque, la balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonnée. Maybe you will find the real thing there.
You will probably want to skip over all this incomprehensible newfangled "base-ball" stuff and get back to the rules of cricket, or rounders, or town ball, stool ball, tut ball, or old cat.All I know is, back in elementary school when the kids played softball during recess, the team at bat was said to be "in town." I've never heard that expression used anywhere else.