(in the UK) a team game resembling cricket, with a board (originally a stool) as a wicket, played chiefly by women and girls.
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The earliest known reference to stoolball is in a 1330 poem by William Pagula, who recommended to priests that the game be forbidden within churchyards.
In stoolball, a milking stool was used as a target, and a hard leather ball stuffed with feathers or hair was thrown at it.
Playing stoolball is comparatively cheap, and it doesn't need an immaculate pitch so it can be played almost anywhere.
Originally, stoolball was a game played by milkmaids, as early as the 14th century.
All that we do know for a fact is that the terms baseball and stoolball were used interchangeably on many occasions.