Historians believe that rounders and cricket originally came from a game called STOOLBALL.

This is played in a marked field with a batter and a bowler. 

Although mainly seen as a game played at school I see rounders having huge potential of becoming more popular. 

Rounders is the name used by Jane Austen in her book "Northanger Abbey". Following the "The Boy's Own Book" of 1828 devoted a whole chapter to Rounders and in 1889 the Liverpool and Scottish Rounders Association was founded. The 1st official rules did away with the practice of putting a running batter out by hitting them with a thrown ball.