Palant

Palant is a Polish game similar to baseball, played using a wooden stick and rubber balls. Similar games are German Schlagball, Russian lapta and Romanian oină. In his book "God's Playground" Norman Davies suggests that the popular US game, baseball, may have developed from Palant played by the first Polish immigrants such as Jamestown Polish craftsmen.

Rules

The players are divided into two teams of 7 to 15 players. The playing field is 25 by 60 meters in size, and the wooden stick has 60–88 centimeters in length. You have to draw the "heaven" and "hell" fields. Reflecting team is trying to maintain as long as possible to "heaven" field for customs clearance wooden stick and finish the race. Team being on the "hell" field seeks to obtain the "heaven". For this purpose, trying to catch the ball in his hands as soon as possible to reject the heaven, so as to withhold as many players on the "hell". The team of "heaven" is set before the line "heaven" and the team "hell" for the line drawn to pierce the ball. The duration of the game twice after 20 minutes, you can set a limit being in "heaven" and "hell." The players located on the "heaven" bounce the ball behind the line designated with a wooden stick. Reflection is important when the ball sailed above the ground or on the ground the center line. Reflection is invalid when Batsman release the wooden stick of the hand, himself not toss balls, or he will not hit the ball.

After contacting the ball by a player in "heaven" pushes the stick and begins to defeat the base, task players in "hell" as soon as possible transfer balls to heaven. If a player misses, not strikes are set to run. For each running a yields one point. When a team from "hell" catch the ball in one hand directly during the flight that goes to heaven. Caught in the basket (with both hands) gets one point. These rules can vary and change. When playing e.g. After 5 miniute upstairs (in heaven) and players from hell will not make the transition a n-el informs that the sides. The winning team that has the greatest number of points in a given time.

Bibliography

• Redakcja Słowników Języka Polskiego PWN (1995). Słownik Wyrazów Obcych PWN wydanie nowe. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. p. 811. ISBN 83-01-11487-8.

• Zespół Wydawnictwa Wilga (1998). Słownik Współczesnego Języka Polskiego tom 2. Warsaw: Przegląd Readeŕs Digest. p. 7. ISBN 83-909366-3-1.

• Kopaliński, Władysław (1989). Słownik wyrazów obcych i zwrotów obcojęzycznych. Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna. p. 373. ISBN 83-214-0570-3.