Rounders vs Baseball! British VS American | Evan Edinger & Noahfinnce

What exactly is the difference between rounders and baseball? Which is MORE OBJECTIVELY FUN? Let's find out!
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[@melmeister-4747]

Rounders wasn't a gender specific sport. In my school everyone played it. We would play until everyone had batted twice then you switch from batting to fielding. However at one of my school's if the teams were small enough (9-11) you would play until everyone was out which is fun because if you're the last one left the only way you can stay in is by hitting it far enough to score a whole rounder so you can bat again. And the game would last as long as you had time basically.

[@a.s.j.g6229]

It was 100% a girls sport when I was in prep school.

[@orana03]

Pretty much the same here, in Primary School in secondary we played softball instead. Tho neither were common, we played football, rugby, hockey or cricket more.

[@Kel-qo4mw]

Same in my school we were never separated by gender for any sports. Rounders was always something everyone wanted to do it was fun but we usually only had it towards the end of year when the teacher had given up. I don't think it was even part of the proper lesson plans.

[@lauraswinton8458]

Yeah same, it was like a fun sport in primary school on the one day a year the weather was nice. The 'girls sport' thing is... Not something I ever came across.

[@susanna7004]

PE was very gendered at my school - football, rugby and cricket for the boys, netball and rounders for the girls... :(

[@amiscellaneoushuman3516]

I have to disagree with Noah's generalisation that rounders is a girls' sport, while his school may have treated it as such at mine (and I'm sure other's) it was treated as a gender neutral sport, and for older pupils was played in mixed gender teams. It really depends on the individual school. Also, I was always taught that the rule about holding on to the bat was to prevent players accidentally *throwing* it behind them (rather than just *dropping* it) and hitting the backstop/anyone else behind them with the added reach being a benefit of the rule rather than the reason for it.

[@js66613]

Same.

[@hannahlincoln7457]

I’m ours it was boys and girls sports like Noah’s but like just depends where u go I guess lol

[@aceatlasska4343]

@@hannahlincoln7457 yeah I think it just depends on the area/school. At my school in Scotland it was a gender neutral sport in primary school (like all sports in primary school) and in secondary school we played softball instead, during the summer, as one of the few mixed sports.

[@lucyj8204]

My teenager's school has rounders for girls but not boys. At primary school they all played.

[@lydiac9648]

I think it depends on the school, in mine rounders was girls only too. He’s just speaking from his experience.

[@lilyhaselwood7975]

As a British person my knowledge of baseball is limited to watching high school musical 2

[@Megan-jx1cf]

'I don't dance' like really chad your literally killing the dance number

[@isabellerosling138]

My freinds and I would always recreate that when playing rounders because we got really bored

[@emilywatkinson5569]

i’m quite british and matter of fact and i say a wall is a wall

[@larajarratt6043]

@@Megan-jx1cf that's because it's about being gay lol

[@georgiawright2762]

@@emilywatkinson5569 iPhone conspiracies

[@underscorellie726]

usually in uk rounders we switch over when everyone has batted on the batting team, if the other team ends up having more players then someone usually goes twice or something to make up the extra people!!!

[@annah7648]

In my school we also switched if someone caught the ball in one hand (two hands meant the player alone was out for that round)

[@swagaw3some546]

It's also interesting to see the game is really short. For example baseball depending all the team can be an all day thing.

[@underscorellie726]

@@swagaw3some546 yeah! since most pe lessons are only an hour long (including changing e.c) we can only go once and sometimes twice in the lesson

[@alexandria6054]

Thanks to my GCSE in sport I'm actually a qualified rounders umpire with rounders england. There were a few things glossed over: 1) getting to the second post is half a rounder, getting to fourth is a whole rounder 2) if you hit backwards you can only run to first base, you can run to second once the ball passes the backline. 3) third base is usually left empty because the ball is usually sent to fourth to stop a full rounder - instead of getting a person out. 4) once you lose contact with a post you have to run to the next one, if it's stumped you're out 5) you can run once the ball leaves the bowlers hand 6) you have to make contact with the fourth post to be considered 'in' once you've run around 7) backhanding (the act of moving the bat to hit the ball the opposite way) is a common technique used as they have more fielders on the right side of the pitch as most people are right-handed 8) adding on to 7, it's common that you will hear people shout "leftie" and move across the pitch accordingly if someone is left-handed 9) once you step into the box the bowler can throw straight away if it's a good ball you have to run 10) when played recreationally innings can vary. they can be timed or you have so many batting opportunities. at my school, we always usually played everyone gets two bats (unless you go out on your first). can't think of anything else right now but i hope that clears some things up.

[@elsalter6894]

+

[@rosellastar468]

Thank you,you said everything I noticed they missed

[@elizabethgrosvenor153]

Thanks

[@pannajohns5255]

Rounders was one of the only activities that I actually liked in PE :D

[@twinny555]

Amazing! Is it true you’re allowed to carry the bat with you? We always had to drop it and we still play that in our family now that you have to drop the bat. Probably coz we’ve only got one bat 😂 but I always thought it was a rule

[@beatricegoodchild6232]

purposefully standing at the back of the field when your team was fielding-so you could chat with your mates >>>>>>>

[@Hex...]

These were the most annoying type of people when you actually wanted to play the game though

[@beatricegoodchild6232]

@@Hex... fantastic for when you were crap at it tho 💫

[@CCNYMacGuy]

True on both side of the pond on that one!

[@jessssssssss8811]

Despite having played rounders at school, I think this is the first time the specifics of the rules have been explained to me 😂. Honestly it was always chaos when we played and was everyone's favourite

[@railnut21]

Rounders is an all gender sport really. However the older you get that is when it tends to split due to differences in size and risks of injury. Lots of primary schools (equivalent to kindergarten to 5th Grade aka Elementary school)teach it to all the children (boys and girls) now. Not sure about secondary

[@amiscellaneoushuman3516]

I actually had the opposite experience, my school separated PE classes by gender in Years 7-9 (~age 11-14) but had mixed gender classes, including rounders, for Years 10-11 (~age 14-16)

[@sarahhiggins1515]

@@amiscellaneoushuman3516 The same for us. The reason it became mixed again was because we got to choose what sports we did so they had smaller classes.

[@NicholasJH96]

Primary school well one I used to go it was both genders but that 32 in class at the time. It usually lasted two hours probably due to amount of kids. In comprehensive school it was classed as female sports whilst boys play cricket. Whilst I & few others couldn’t play cricket for number of reasons I remember playing catch with support assistant for class & three to five others people in my class at the time.

[@hollypearson6064]

at primary we would play three in a bucket with both genders, once we got to secondary the pe groups were split into genders, but in year 11 it was mixed because many people had study lessons during yr11 and therefore the pe group shrunk

[@darkchocolate5494]

currently in secondary school and everyone plays it. amab and afab people are in separate groups but we all play it

[@KatesAdventures]

I never experienced rounders as a girls only sport, my experience was of everyone playing and we didn't run with the bat. With hindsight that was probably due to not having extra bats. Most lethal game of rounders I ever experience was one we tried indoors at a kids club. The room wasn't that big and the ball kept ricocheting off the walls and nearly hitting people in the face. At the time I thought it was a great twist to the game but I think the adults were like "Oh geeze we're never doing this again".

[@Louisyed]

😂

[@ChickenOfAwesome]

"With hindsight this was probably due to not having extra bats". Yeah, I am learning from this video that, as rounders crazy as my school was (its was played ALL the time), we were not well stocked. I was like "wait, there are supposed to be posts? We just used bean bags or plastic cones... and you ran with the bat? Then how did the next person bat? ... and there are ROUNDERS balls? We just used a tennis ball!!"

[@KatesAdventures]

@@ChickenOfAwesome It's like a whole different game for the people who don't have all the equipment and need to get creative 😂 People who grew up with enough bats and posts will never know the thrill of trying to find a teeny beanbag marker when it's lying in long grass.

[@aceatlasska4343]

@@ChickenOfAwesome I remember in primary school we used hula hoops as the bases, and they'd end up skidding around, and I don't think we ran with the bat either. Oh and it was always fun when someone would hit the ball too hard and it would fly over the fence and onto the street. We also didn't even play it on grass at first but on the hard ground of the football pitch. Good times. Edit: honestly I had no clue that rounders had like, proper rules. I don't remember every using terms for concepts like "half a rounder" or "full rounder", maybe I just wasn't paying attention, which wouldn't have been unlikely tbh.

[@bookbee3648]

Did Evan really just title the video rounder instead of rounders? Is this gonna become the new maths vs math debate😂

[@evan]

MISTAKE

[@ronniereynolds6]

@@evan sure....

[@ashy2074]

It was interesting hearing Noah talk about what sounded like a more proper version of the game ‘Rounders’ which I thought was just a casual PE game. We usually used a tennis ball and racket and it was always mixed gender. Plus, we definitely didn’t have names for anything other than bases. Maybe that’s why I thought Rounders was so boring 😂

[@danielaltmann1308]

i definitely thought it was a PE sport i still do but it never came to me that it was done in a professional level. I just thought it was a sport that was for everyone that was made by a school which spread nationwide.

[@ashy2074]

@@danielaltmann1308 yeah same

[@jaydenhunter648]

Noahs experience of rounders wasn't like most of our experiences because he didn't go to state school

[@ashy2074]

@@jaydenhunter648 that’s a good point, I also went to school in Scotland not England

[@aceatlasska4343]

@@danielaltmann1308 wait rounders is played at a professional level? 😂

[@th3bon3crush3r2]

5:53 Evan, don’t want to be that guy but, the bases are 90 feet (27.4 meters) away from each other professional, and 60 feet (18.2 meters) for little league. You showed an image at 7:29 proving that the bases are farther. I hope this cleared up any confusion.

[@KellyIsShort]

This is an interesting situation for me here, as a British person who played rounders in school but was on the local under 16s (or 18, can’t remember) baseball team. We used to go around the UK playing matches in a baseball league. I’m not sure if it’s a thing anymore but it was so enjoyable! When I was 11 I almost got sent the USA for a baseball training camp kinda thing but I got injured which ended my time on the team. Wish I could’ve gone for a better comparison. Rounders isn’t as fun in my opinion, hated it at school because I was so used to baseball. I still have my mitt!

[@pookage]

haha, every time Evan does one of these it's always from a brit who went to private school, so there's always a dash of weird posh shit thrown in there...

[@ellaf3877]

But does that even matter? Like rounders is rounders whereever you go All schools vary, one state school can be completely different to another, so no 'british school' narrative will relate to everyone.

[@Inucroft]

@@ellaf3877 State School- mixed sex PE for most sports Rounders- we had to drop the bats as we only has 2-3 per game

[@susanna7004]

Tbf I went to a normal state school and PE was segregated (boys also mostly played football, cricket, rugby etc whilst girls played netball and football). I think perhaps it’s a regional thing?

[@Inucroft]

@@susanna7004 It was only segregated on occasion. Basically just Rugby, untill the final two years where it was more segreated... but that was due to more contact sports

[@Lizziel23]

@@Inucroft my comp school was basically the opposite - we were completely segregated until year 10/11 where we started getting to pick the sports we did and then it was mixed

[@scottnisbet6455]

I'm from Scotland and I had no idea about most of the stuff Noah is describing. I have only played it in PE and never expected there to be professional rounders teams

[@jaymercer4692]

Yeah I’m English and I’ve never heard of that before, it was a game we just played in PE and sometimes with friends in summer. I imagine there’s only professional rounders players to the extent that there’s professional quidditch or professional tiddlywinks players.

[@lauraswinton8458]

Same.

[@emman9858]

Same we would always play with a football so would kick it then run, and we switch when 3 people are out

[@aceatlasska4343]

Same, and I only played it in primary, in secondary we played softball (mixed gender ) in summer? (still no clue how it differs from rounders tbh)

[@sarahstokes6659]

Im in England and our local rounders league has 50 ish teams! They are based at a rugby club with great facilities, which helps.

[@alycats94]

I will never forget the day when one of my brother’s friends broke one of the metal bats in half during the softball unit in middle school PE. He was a farm kid, and just had a lot of muscle. We put the broken bat in the school trophy case. It’s still there.

[@hannahbee567]

Really quick before I watch--is it possible to add an s to 'Rounder'---Rounders Can't wait to watch!!!

[@-g-112]

In my primary school, we played rounders all of the time, and the school was mixed. It was one of the main sports we played for P:E and we also played cricket as well. There was never any girls vs boys aspect to it, and girls weren't always better at rounders and boys weren't always better at cricket. Also, in my all girls secondary school, we play cricket, rounders and tennis, so in my opinion rounders isn't gendered in the slightest

[@sarahhiggins1515]

In primary school classes are too small to split by gender so everyone plays everything but in mixed secondary schools they are. And the reason for splitting is the same as the reasons any professional sport is split by gender (genetic advantage after puberty). Netball, rounders and badminton were only played by girls while football, rugby, cricket and tennis were only played by boys. Even athletics events were different. Only boys did triple jump and 1500m. There were sports played by both though just separately (basketball, gymnastics, table tennis etc)

[@flappetyflippers]

In my secondary school it was (idk why it was stupid) theyve changed it though.

[@sarahhiggins1515]

@louis george When I got specific I was talking about what it was like at my own school.

[@sarahhiggins1515]

@louis george We had 300+ students in a year group that was split into 9 teaching groups who you would do all your classes with. For PE it was 3 teaching groups combined but split into male and female so it would be around 50 students in a class which was later split in half again in to sets based on ability/people that actually enjoyed PE.

[@aceatlasska4343]

At my primary school it was similar, although we didn't play cricket much, but when we did it wasn't gendered, nothing in primary school was. In secondary we played softball in the summer time, honestly still not sure what the difference between that and rounders is lol. It was actually one of the only sports in PE that wasn't segregated by gender.

[@nakaharaindria]

I think this is the first time I'm so early to Evan's video. I haven't even received the notification. I just saw it on my YT homepage hahaha. Also, I'm from Indonesia, we have "kasti" here and it's kinda like baseball but not really. I guess it's rounder, then? It's more similar to rounder than baseball, I think. O_O

[@synthiandrakon]

I was thinking "If at Noah's school girls only played rounders why did he play?" Then I remembered who Noah is 😂

[@alexandra1415]

i was confused for a second too

[@danielaltmann1308]

yep

[@danielaltmann1308]

@@nat3007 same

[@gracious7153]

Fucking loved rounders. At the end of year 11 we would always do a tournament against our teachers!

[@LonKirk]

Agreed it is a great fun.

[@violaf5606]

Yasss we did this too and it was soooo much fun 😂

[@janani1826]

We did that at the end of year 6 in primary, at high school the sixth formers raced against the teachers (100m sprint)

[@TKDDLJ09]

Oh, in Denmark at my school at the end of 9th grade, on our last day we played football against our teachers, because football is a bigger sport here for some reason. 🤣 also rounders isnt really a sport here in denmark, at least not that i know off.

[@carlhumanbcrab]

pretty sure at my school rounders was 99% just sitting around talking to people with about 1minute of mild exercise

[@amiscellaneoushuman3516]

same

[@madhatterline]

I don't think I had people to talk to, lol, but yes pretty much.. 🤣

[@jenniedarling3710]

Yes it was the best way to get of actually doing anything in PE.

[@koukkoufos2000]

Why does Evan always do these pun jokes at the start? 😂 😂 I fucking can’t lmao

[@gkdggkd4364]

Rounders is one of 4 traditional Irish sports governed by the GAA, it's called "corr" in Irish, when brought to the States by Irish immigrants it was renamed baseball.

[@paulthomas8262]

Like Irish handball, these are different games similar to other handball like game from Italy, France/Spain (especially Basque region), and the UK. Same for Irish boxing and kick boxing, there are versions of pugilism from pretty much every country, same for folk wrestling. So there is an Irish version of a rounders like game, rather then rounders being Irish. Where Rounder originated is pretty debatable. Hurling is pretty unique even if it has elements in common ancient greek and native american games.

[@aisling_90]

I was looking to see if any Irish person commented this 👌🏽

[@patrickgillespie5506]

“Our bases are 30 feet away from each other” an American explaining rounders through baseball without knowing the rules of baseball

[@isabelxy3197]

I am from Austria and my knowledge of baseball was very limited and I never heard of rounders before - this was a confusing yet interesting video to watch 😂

[@Diamondgamervideos]

It doesn't matter how many times the rules of rounders get explained to me, I CANNOT remember them, making rounders the most stressful thing I can hear we're going to play

[@flappetyflippers]

Does anybody understand it, don't we all just play it however we feel like on the day

[@myname-rz4zk]

@@flappetyflippers 😂 literally

[@lilysmott1061]

Rounders is just what we play at school if the pe teacher can’t be bothered to teach a proper lesson. And cause my school is weird we use tennis racquets or cricket bats to bat

[@driftedspirit]

I LOVE rounders. Grew up playing this from being little. I miss proper wooden bats - the weight of them gives the ball a better hit. Now most rounders bats are plastic and a bit naff. The hospital where I work has a rounders team that competes against other hospitals:)

[@alexaviertaiga3686]

Every couple of years I come back to your Chanel and catch up on what I’ve missed and it’s just really comforting :)

[@FridayRosesTwitch]

I just remember being backstop and whenever there was a backwards hit, it being the most stressful thing because if you didn’t throw the ball accurately to first then you just gave the other team half a rounder. Basically the rule is if the ball is hit backwards the batter has to wait on first base until the ball crossed the front of the batting square, so as a backstop you had to throw it to second before the batter got there

[@Dontreply39573]

I'm so happy that Evan talked about how in softball the pitch can be extremely fast even though it is underhand. I had a friend who play competitive softball all through middle and high school then in college. But whenever I went to those games the pitch was always so fast, they would have the speed guns out and 55-60 mph was a slow ball. And even though the pitch is underhand softball players really crank up their arm by getting a big wind up before releasing the ball.

[@georgina01melia]

Just wanna say thanks Evan for uploading when things are a bit crazy with your living situation! Appreciate it 🌟

[@caitlinfrank8054]

Baseball and softball have started to catch on in the uk, with both recreational and competitive adult baseball and softball leagues, university leagues, and national teams growing steadily! This year is the first year there has been a women’s baseball league in the uk (which I got to play in and has been one of my favourite experiences in sport). The GB women's softball team even nearly qualified for the 2021 olympics!! When I was in year 9 my school transitioned from doing rounders in PE to teaching softball instead, and I think several schools in the area did the same. I think this is helping people become more aware of the sports’ presence in the uk.

[@emilyfinch8923]

I love how noah tries to explain it bit it's a PE sport so there is no standards its just however the teacher feels that day Also for me rounders wasn't just the girls sport everyone would play

[@necronom]

The most memorable thing about rounders wasn't mentioned! When someone hits the ball really well and is looking like they might get all the way round, everyone starts shouting "Rounder! Rounder! Rounder!" until they either get round or stop. Unless that was just in the 70s/80s I've never thought of it as a girls sport. Everyone played it when I was young.

[@francesatty7022]

I did my GCSEs in 2019.. when we played rounders the lined up batting team would go wild when someone got past 3rd base and looked like they were gonna get a rounder

[@crazycatlover1885]

It annoys me that schools decide some sports are just for boys, like rugby and cricket and some are just for girls like hockey 🙄. The girls at my school just got allowed to do cricket because we complained enough. Edit: Should also have mentioned that when we do cross country at the start of the year, the girls do 3 laps and the boys do 4.

[@trevorstephens9874]

In America, we have a law called Title 9 which requires an equal amount of girls and boys sports offered in school. It also allows girls to play on boy's sports teams as well.

[@aldendomino3523]

class action lawsuit against the school for sexism.

[@nightlyrowentree6047]

That's crazy like one of the people commented we have laws against that heck we had girls on are American football team in high school

[@Aima952]

Back in 2005 my highly sexist Catholic High school let the girls do full contact rugby, golf and cricket because... Collective action and civil disobedience work. When they had us playing tag rugby we ignored the rules and just did full contact for 1 full period - then argued that since we could hurt each other it was better to teach us to do it properly. When they took rounders of the curriculum (which was unisex at my school) they tried to seperate the classes by sex again and we refused to permit this and used the equipment to play quick cricket. When they announced that the girls were going to to be doing step aerobics for 2 months they just gave us the sign up sheet for the golf lessons most of the boys were doing too, by this point they'd given up. Just talk to your class and get a petition to the PE teachers.

[@audiolect6303]

Lol ye the boys at my school are allowed to play football and basketball and the girls have to do walking and play rounders

[@RubyMadigan]

I will say I think I have played more rounders with groups of friends on a village green than at school and there we didnt take the bat because we only ever had about 2. But at school we were told we had to hold onto the bat when we ran because if you throw it behind you as you run to first you could hit someone. If I remember rightly, if you didnt hit the ball then you could only run to first but if you hit it then you could potentially go all the way round

[@katfoster845]

When I was at school, if you didn't hit it you could run all the way round and get half a rounder.

[@Megan-jx1cf]

@@katfoster845 Tbh I remember using both of these rules, we kind of just made it up as we went along, like UNO lol

[@jennyjenjen80]

I played a lot of rounders in the 80's and 90's. When we were up to bat we had to hit the ball, drop the bat for the next person and run. If you forgot to drop it and took the bat you were disqualified. Maybe the rules changed for safety because some kids used to lob the bat behind them

[@scarlettjohnson7672]

As a brit, this is the first time I've ever heard rounders be referred to as a 'girls sport'. It was entirely gender neutral where I was, with games being mixed gender too. Also I've never heard of it being played outside of school. Literally just an excuse for PE teachers to not have a proper lesson plan, in my experience!

[@emilygudgeon-osterritter9837]

Rounders is such a British summer thing to do! I wanna see a follow up video... Evan, Noah, and friends playing rounders - collab with Max Fosh! Show us how it's played!

[@deborahbasco3514]

In my primary school on the last day of term we had a year 6 Vs teachers rounders match. It was horrible, the teachers always won as they were against literal 11 year olds and all of year 6 had to participate. Also it was the last day of primary school and all we wanted to do was to say goodbye to people but the teachers decided sports was a better idea.

[@lucashucbourg-muller7024]

My school did cricket. So count your blessings.

[@flappetyflippers]

My school did this and everyone loved it We all loved the teachers though so that helped

[@autumn_west]

my school did this too! weirdly enough it was pretty evenly matched most years and my year won when it was our turn!

[@deborahbasco3514]

@@flappetyflippers idk me and my friends just didn't like sports.

[@flappetyflippers]

@@deborahbasco3514 fair lol

[@lucyj8204]

I once played rounders was after work (at a prep school). PE teacher bowled to History teacher, who batted it straight back towards her. It hit her on her cheek and broke her eye socket. The sound of the ball making contact, and her scream, will stay with me forever. For me, rounders is a children's sport, probably mostly primary school. Because if the adults get involved, people get hurt!

[@sporting_fire6784]

I am British and at an all boys school and we played softball for a term, for us rounders was a primary school game you’d play at lunch time.

[@sarah8028]

“The World Series with only three countries” It’s worse than that. The World Series is just the USA, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the haunting spectre of the long-gone Montreal Expos. Japan, South Korea, and Central American countries - aka the other places that care about baseball - don’t participate in the World Series. It’s basically exactly like basketball where it’s just a bunch of Americans and Toronto.

[@Lizziel23]

At my school we usually just played rounders when it was summer and they’d given up with other sports - and it was both boys and girls (but not often together)

[@Bubblepunk22]

Noah please take Evan to a park and play rounders how we all used to with jumpers as bases 🤣 and Evan please do it as a vlog! I 100% need to see this and also I’ve just messaged all my friends from back home… annual leave in 2 weeks you’d best believe I’m gunna try and get a rounders game going!

[@aceatlasska4343]

We used hula hoops as bases in school 😂

[@polkadot8788]

Or those plastic disk/cone things

[@amieamie6268]

We did something like rounders in school in Denmark. Just even less rule bassed. We played without groves and the ball was a tennis ball. You learn to cetch it so it doesn't hurt too much.

[@TKDDLJ09]

Yes!!! It was so much fun in school, and the best day in gym when we plays Rundbold!

[@patrickh3895]

I’ve been waiting for a British vs America sports edition! Let’s go!! Played baseball my whole life and this was dope to see

[@maryhopely6310]

when there’s only enough people for everyone to have a post and so your placed on the 1st one because you don’t have to anything ✌️

[@lodgekeepe]

When I was a child, we all played rounders, lol!

[@garygcrook]

I played Rounders in Middle School as part of PE, and played Softball in Secondary School once or twice. They were very similar. The main differences being Home in rounders is separate from the Fourth Base, and they were Bases, even though they were short posts, with the bats being either short baseball types or short cricket types. You could hit it out of the play area, as we played rounders on the school playground. You could even steal bases. We played as a class, split into two teams, and were hitting tennis balls.

[@beatrix1120]

As an Australian we usually learnt related sports in groups. So our PE teacher would get us to play rounders until were half decent at it, then baseball, then cricket. Then we'd move on to football sports: soccer, AFL, rugby, field hockey.

[@emilysanders2575]

I have found that many places do rounders differently. I have played rounders at school and at scouts (definitely not a girls sport), where different rules were in use. Sometimes it was drop the bat (only one bat in the game), sometimes it was take the bat (don't hit anyone as you throw it). Sometimes there was the three strike rule and sometimes not. Sometimes we used a cricket bat or a plastic bat. I think the idea or rounders was just a team sport that can be played with a ball (usually a tennis ball) and a hitting object, with as many or few people as there are.

[@clairebriggs4333]

At our school rounders was for everyone but there were girls and boys sports. But at my kids school they never did rounders and the boys and girls play any sport together. Mainly Rugby and volleyball.

[@bruhgamingnl1315]

Evan, did you ever think about releasing your British Vs American and/or other video's as podcasts?

[@robertbrookes2000]

In our rounders the batting team would keep going until enough people are out that there's no one to bat (as the remaining batters are stuck at a stop/base)

[@eksortso]

That kinda sounds like cricket, except if you don't get out you can eventually bat again once you've stopped running.

[@helmi8671]

I grew up playing pesäpallo (finnish baseball). It's basically baseball execpt for the pitch: the pitcher is face to face with the batter and throws the ball up and the batter hits the ball when it is coming down. Because the pitcher and batter are standing so close it's really easy to get hit in the head as the pitcher, though.

[@daniel.t.h.]

Here in the Netherlands we used to play a similar game at school called Peanut. The ball wasn't thrown at you, but stood ontop of a pedestal. After you hit the ball you had to run to first base, then second, third and then home. You could be tagged out or the base could be tagged out, meaning you can't go onto that base that round. It was really fun, we even had a terminat each year to see which school was the best

[@emmakaycynova]

It is interesting watching the reactions to the various aspects of both games!

[@joshuaayres8932]

Thank you for this! I've always wondered what Rounders was but too lazy to Google.

[@lewischarlesworth6697]

Petition for Evan's next vid to be him learning to play rounders in the park

[@taranfennell7459]

I played rounders a couple times when I came back to the UK since I used to live and go to school overseas and I really disliked it. I find baseball much more appealing.

[@lollypopsical135]

It’s interesting to hear Noah’s experience as at my school rounders was always gender neutral, even up until Year 11 (age 16). Sports that were split were cricket and basketball (boys) and stoolball and netball (girls). I think at one point tennis and badminton were also split but I really can’t understand why girls wouldn’t play tennis?!

[@aceatlasska4343]

What's stoolball? Also yeah why stop girls playing tennis?? I played tennis for a while (I'm a girl) not in school though, anyone can play it 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@elizabethgrosvenor153]

They might have split it up but still had both play it. Especially during the teenage growth years, it's not fair to have girls play against guys who are so much bigger and stronger than they are.

[@aceatlasska4343]

@@elizabethgrosvenor153 well I think they would know if everyone had played the same sports. I agree that girls and boys should be separated, although for some sports it's not much of an issue. At my school we played mixed softball in summer and it was fine imo. However whenever the teachers had no actual classes planned for us for whatever reason, we all picked from a range of sports and then played them mixed usually without much supervision. This was fine for table tennis and probably badminton, but those were seldom options so we'd have to play dodgeball, which was basically the boys aggressively playing and the girls mostly standing at the back trying not to get hit. Tbh I found it genuinely scary and did get hit in the face once by a ball flying at full speed, which was sore lol.

[@elizabethgrosvenor153]

I figured they'd only know if they cared to pay enough at the time, lol. And high school was likely a long time ago... ((shrug))

[@mccollmeevie3190]

I thought rounders was a game you played in primary school with a one of those big plastic tennis racket. Absolutely loved it though, we would occasionally meet up to play at the park. Scotland.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

I know nothing about baseball besides the lyrics of "I don't dance" from high school musical 2. I am ready to learn.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

Also "baseball game" from falsettos...

[@summerrobyn]

So seeing the comments and people saying rounders was gender neutral at their schools just want to put in my two sense. My school has cricket, rounders and softball! Girls do rounders and boys do softball - both do cricket.

[@keriezy]

Evan measuring a baseball based on his 13 year old hands! He's close but it's a bit smaller than what he showed. Rounders sounds like a really fun rec game for a picnic or party.

[@elizabethgrosvenor153]

I was coming here to comment about this. At big family picnics and stuff it's quite common to play nonstop rounders. It's faster/more fun. Fielders are just trying to get the ball back to the bowler, batters once you start running you have to go all the way around. The bowler bowls once they have the ball and if there's no one to hit it then whoever should have hit it gets out, and once you get the rounder you usually have to pick up the bat straightaway and go again (there's usually only one bat). But it works best if you're a bit lax about keeping score.

[@mackenzielauffer6825]

I love this video! i wanted to share some softball knowledge as well because it fits so well! softball does have a cage around the helmet! also some people choose to wear a facemask so just like a cage for your face similar to ones for women's lacrosse. but also covers the mouth, I wore one playing third because of how fast the ball can come at you and i had a few too many black eyes.... but people often wore them in the infield as well as heart guards which was just a plate across your chest to protect your heart. again mostly infielders. something else softball had is a drop ball on the third strike. idk if baseball has it but if the catcher were to drop the ball on the third strike the hitter can then run to first in attempt to not be thrown out. something i am curious about is do they slide in rounders? and how do they throw to one another with no glove...?

[@laurencelowndes7841]

In primary school, we use to play kickball - but it was football cricket. Which today I learnt, is actually a sport in south Asia called "Leg Cricket"!

[@Lcngopher]

Theres never been a game where a pitcher pitched a perfect game getting every batter out on strikes(at least in the majors). However, getting 27 straight outs has been done a handful of times

[@WilliamReginaldLucas]

I’m from Northampton and boys and girls PE groups played it in my school. I used to love playing as a fielder, catching someone out who’d just hit a sixer was always satisfying 😂

[@Chris_GY1]

Rounders is played by boys and girls (you drop the bat or at my middle school you did), baseball isn’t played at school in Britain, there is a single team in England. At schools in Britain Cricket, football and Rugby are the main three main sports (someone will no doubt have their say on this) played at school during games lessons, I have played badminton, trampolining, volleyball and softball (as well as football, cricket and rugby) and I also did cross country. With the school but not at school I did horse riding, ice skating, played snooker, played squash and went swimming.

[@xaoc6084]

That “good job sir” originally sounded like either Oliver Twist or Harry Potter 🤣

[@Wizard0fDogs]

I don’t think we had rounders in my high school at all but in primary school it was pretty common and for the whole class, my school only did cricket on sports day

[@angelaw6656]

In Canada we also have boy scouts and girl guides (canadian version of girl scouts) who also sold cookies and people here were very excited to buy them. In my experience as a girl guide people always knew which cookies we would have depending on season. I also sold chocolate in high school as fund raising for band trips (you got half of the money earned from your sales), the money went to each individual so I managed to pay for all of my trips that way including my $700 trip to NYC

[@weirdwarrior6876]

I find Noah everywhere and I'm not complaining

[@Maddi-tron5000]

We would sometimes play ‘ball rounders.’ Which is basically the kick ball version of rounders

[@rene14slhs]

I'm a softball player. In both softball and baseball there are 9 people on the feild and 3 to 5 extras players on the bench. All of the team members are in the batting lineup and can hit it. If the first 3 batters strike out the other team gets to bat (also the 3 stike out batters go to the end of the batting line up now for the rest of the team to bat next time they're up). The softball is bigger than the baseball and also a hard neon greenish yellowish. Softball pitches are more complicated than baseball pitches in terms of throwing ( both are hard to hit and throw but a softball pitch isn't just underhanded, the pitched swings there arm back a little bit then forward into a circle then throws underhanded, the balls trajectory ends a up going into a arch when its released).

[@sunshinelollypop024]

I was terrible at batting and catching but I could run so quite enjoyed rounders :) At my secondary school we had mixed teams of boys and girls. We would also sometimes play it at lunchtime using our water bottles as bats 😂

[@rhyanashah128]

Rounders was a girls sport at my place, but we weren’t allowed to play any form of rugby that wasn’t touch (Aka non contact) Also didn’t baseball get started by Irish immigrants. So it’s probably that rounders was first and when Irish folks immigrated to the states, they adapted to the sport to be what is now baseball. I could have made all that up, but I remember reading that somewhere

[@alexandraw909]

This ENTIRE video is "Evan says words, Noah says words, i'm just smiling bc there're times where each of them is confused at the words the other says...." My entire existance with sports is 'ooooh yay, someone did a thing! Yay them!' Anything else makes my brain twist 😅😅😶😶 this is truly a video for ppl who like/understand sporty things, and as someone who truly does not, i still apprrciate it 😝

[@CraigGrannell]

“Do you guys have softball?” “No.” I guess I must have hallucinated many joyless summer PE softball sessions at secondary school where the teacher couldn’t be bothered doing track and field and made us all stand around in a field instead.

[@theelectroadam]

In our school rounder u can play kick rounders or bat rounders were you use a bat basically but that’s the main one kick rounders is just to change it up but not played often and the game you can get a home run when you do a clean sweeping you hit the balls and someone catches it then the teams switch there is a catching team and a batting team

[@lynette.]

Baseball was originally a British game. Enjoyed this.

[@4svennie]

In my junior school, we stopped playing at 12 years old, boys and girls played. Teams were simply the whole number of persons divided into two teams. Everyone got three plays of the bat (which was one handed only) before swapping over and kept playing until the PE period finished.

[@Zadster]

Channel 5 TV (UK) used to have late night live baseball a few nights a week, it was great background entertainment. Interesting that you can't draw a match in baseball, they have to keep playing innings until one team or the other wins. This meant that some shows ran very very long! There are some baseball teams in the UK if anyone is interested.

[@hannahthetford5952]

At my primary school rounders was a really common activity in summer PE lessons, and we played in mixed-gender teams. We also had an annual tournament close to the end of term where students and families competed together on mixed teams (I think you had to have a minimum number of primary-aged children on each team to make it somewhat balanced). It was mostly about having fun, but some people (*cough*my dad*cough*) got very competitive! My secondary school was girls only and rounders was a staple of the summer PE lessons because it was one of the only sports that most of the class was willing to engage with. We had some games where everyone batted twice and others where each team batted until there was nobody left to hit the ball. As one of the people who took it more seriously than most of my classmates (but wasn't actually that great at hitting the ball) I remember being one of the last people left and sprinting around the posts trying to get back in time to hit the ball again. We also had times when someone who wasn't able to run due to an injury (or having forgotten their PE kit and therefore not having appropriate footwear) would hit the ball and have someone else run for them.

[@NunontheRun]

I can definitely say that I do not understand rounders any more than I did before. I was on a softball team in Canada - we collected bottles to raise money for uniforms for the team. In Canada there's a deposit on all bottles/cans - so at age 13, the whole team would go to all the houses in our neighbourhood and ask people if we could have their bottles. At the end of the day, we'd have a pick-up truck full of empties that we'd cash in for money for uniforms :-)

[@librasgirl08]

In Germany we played Brennball. You have no bats and use most of the time a volleyball. But you still have bases and can get a homerun. It was pretty popular in school, but mostly in primary school level.

[@frida6653]

Interesting! In Sweden we call it brännboll but we do use bats and tennis balls. Though we have a “brännare” (burner) who burns the batter if they catch the ball (the outer team tries to catch it first and then throws it to the burner) before the batter reaches a base :)

[@librasgirl08]

@@frida6653 yeah, we have the latter, too. And I found out, that you have a similar game in Sweden, when I checked Wikipedia, wanted to know, what the English page is saying 😊

[@hugobeswick3558]

British vs american is back!!! Still love the reddit and community vids but it’s so nice to be back with other people!

[@camillahwessing]

Never heard of Rounders before! Going into the video i thought it would be similar to our Danish "roundball" (Rundbold), but from watching the video, sounds like roundball is kind of a mix between this rounders and baseball I guess (: For roundball, teams can be whatever size you want. You usually have two bats to choose from, a round one and a flat one and you use a tennis ball. You have four stops/bases placed in a square and you can only run between them when a ball is hit. You run from first to second, second to third and third to fourth/home. There's two teams, the "in" team and the "out"/field team. You switch places at 3 dead usually. One person from the field team or a neutral person (like a teacher who's on nobody's team) will be the Pitcher/stopper who stands on a line with the in team, but turned towards the hitting person. You're usually allowed to throw the ball up yourself when hitting though, but you can also have the pitcher/stopper do it for you. You have 3 tries to hit the ball, if you don't hit it, you just go to the first "base" and wait for the next person to hit. The ball must be returned to the pitcher/stopper person after every turn, so the people in the field work together to get the ball back to the stopper as quickly as possible to prevent people from reaching too many bases. You die if someone in the field catches the ball you hit or if you don't make it to a new base when running before the stopper gets the ball and yells stop. The people running on a ball that's caught sometimes die as well depending on the rules you're using, other rules just has them going back to the base they came from. Some people also play with calling a ball "out" if you hit it directly to either side past the two bases there. If you get all the way around on a ball you hit yourself, it's a "revival", so if you had 2 dead, you now have only 1 dead. Not everyone uses that rule though. Some also uses a rule where you can save these "revivals", so if you have 0 dead when you do what would be a home run i guess, you save it for when you get a death next time. You count points for every person returning home, but when you just play for fun, sometimes you don't even count points since it can pretty much go on an on for however long you want to play. Roundball is kind of a hate it or love it thing with kids, because if you are fast at running or good at hitting a ball, you usually love it, but if you run slow and can't hit a ball with a bat, you are just the person nobody wants on their team! I used to always just hit the ball directly to the ground so that it at least wouldn't be caught! And then pretty much always only run one base at a time unless the ball goes really really far (: Also, i don't think you can play roundball professionally! It's only like a fun free-time/school time thing (:

[@pink_nicola]

Yeah this sounds like a variation of rounders with different terminology and some added rules. At my school we played rounders with tennis balls and had the option of using round (stall ball) bats along with the rounders ones and from memory there is a catching out rule in rounders, but no ‘revival’ rule

[@catherinemeyers2020]

this sounds very similar to Aus rounders, minus the revival rule but adding in the baseball way of getting people out. love the fact that you said that people die instead of them being 'out' because that honestly how it felt

[@camillahwessing]

@@catherinemeyers2020 That's what it's called for some reason in our Roundball, we use "out" to describe the ball going to the side or usually the team in the field is the "out" team (: There's usually also all sorts of discussions about people jumping and if that counts or not, like if they see the stopper is about to yell stop and they're almost past the base but not quite, they will jump and if they are in the air when stop is yelled and they land behind the pin that marks the base, they will not be dead (: Roundball can get very heated even though it's usually played by kids 😅

[@TKDDLJ09]

We had different rules at my school in denmark. Much closer to uk rounders... its basically the same thing, at least same concept. But the tennis ball is the most different. We also had different rules everytime we played 🤣🤣 and we could choose how long we would make our bases. 🤣

[@zoemacpherson2701]

Wow, you had posts for rounders. We just used hula hoops for square, we also didn't have that large a field so the spaces were more like 2m a part. We'd switch sides if the ball was caught, we just used tennis balls and tennis shaped rackets, which we didn't run with because we didn't have enough of them. It wasn't split based on gender but then again my school class sizes were never big enough for that. We only really played it in primary school though. I moved onto softball in secondary school, which was split between the genders because our pe classes were split for the most part.

[@Natilra]

When I was in Girls' Brigade, I'm pretty sure that we played Rounders with a tennis ball

[@whitej7888]

Rounders is extremely fun, especially for those who aren't particularly sporty like me. I can't play football or rugby for toffee, but rounders is my kind of game. I like that it's a more "casual" game so is great for parties and social events. I go to an all boys grammar school so can't say much about mixed/"girls'" sport debate but at primary school both boys and girls played it. We played many different variations and rule sets depending on teacher. My favourite was Danish Long all, which is actually pretty different from rounders as it doesn't have any bases.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

“All right, Simpson. Let's go over the signals. If I tug the bill of my cap like so, it means the signal is a fake. I can take that off by dusting my hands thusly. If I want you to bunt, I'll touch my belt buckle... not once, not twice, but thrice…” ⚾️

[@jca111]

When I was a kid in South Wales we used to play Welsh Baseball. It's similar to rounders, but a score per base and a flat bat and was definitely not just a girls sport

[@Kikakowia]

If I have to go to a sportsball game I’ll always choose baseball given the chance. Just bc it’s a nice chill atmosphere and I can actually follow what’s happening. Not familiar w rounders but I’d give (watching) it a shot!

[@catherinemeyers2020]

today I learned that Aus rounders is very different from UK rounders, ours is more like baseball in the sense that we have bases and the way to get people out is the same way to get people out in baseball, our bat though was like a mini cricket bat. We would also toss the bat after you hit the ball. edit, I dont know if this was just my interschool sports district but rounders for us competed as a girl only sport, we did how ever sometimes practice with the cricket time which was boys

[@captvimes]

Rounders, baseball, stoolball (stool means cricket too something for another video?), cricket all originated in the same area of south east England. We have mixed rounders in sussex and it is mostly for fun. Cricket ended up being the serious form of the game but they all share similarities.