One old cat, like scrub baseball, was a game of individuals—one against all—and not a team sport. Each base touched before 'out' (or just home) would score a point, although score was often not kept.

2016年10月15日 · When the striker is on his corner the catcher and giver, or pitcher, pass the ball back and forward, between them, while he tries to run home. When there is only one striker, the game is One Old Cat; when there are two strikers, it is called Two Old Cat, the game being named according to the number of strikers.

2023年6月15日 · One old cat is seeing a resurgence as a batting and fielding training game for younger little league and girl softball teams. Two games are played simultaneously on one diamond, one on the home third line and the other on the first-second line.

2014年2月9日 · Orem says, without citing a source, that "On the first day but four players appeared, so the game was "Cat Ball," called in some parts of New England at the time "Two Old Cat." Later accounts report that the club formed in 1833, although J. M. Ward [1888] also dated the formation of the club to 1831.

Old cat (also known as ol' cat or cat-ball) games were bat-and-ball, safe haven games played in North America. The games were numbered according to the number of bases. The number of bases varied according to the number of players. Only one old cat continues to be commonly played in the 21st century.

An informal children's game that is the basic variation of old-cat with a batter, a pitcher, and two bases. The batter hit from one base, ran to the other base, and then returned to the original base; he was retired when the batted ball was caught on the fly or on one bounce.

: a game in which two people who have shared the twin kernels of a nut each try to claim a gift from the other as a forfeit at their next meeting by fulfilling certain conditions (such as by being the first to exclaim “philopena”)

It's called Alley Cat and it's even older than I am. You play as a black cat and your goal is to make it to the window where the white girl cat is to make kittens. People will throw phones, shoes, other shit at you and at the bottom level you have to watch out for the feral garbage cats and dogs.

Even though this is an extremely old game (1984!) and even though it features archaic 4-color CGA graphics, it still can be fun to play. AlleyCat has you playing an ... uh, alleycat. The object is to jump around an alley (and also inside the appartment building) trying to collect as many mice and other objects as possible while avoiding baddies ...

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