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  • Stoolball: Historic bat sport - Discover a forgotten game with Oly Bennet

    Stoolball: Historic bat sport - Discover a forgotten game with Oly Bennet
    2026/04/23
    Join host Oly Bennett as she uncovers Stoolball, the gloriously bizarre 500-year-old bat-and-ball game and wild ancestor of cricket and baseball. From medieval milkmaids to Shakespeare's bawdy jokes and a rogue officer with frying pans at Lord's Cricket Ground, discover flirting, controversy, and history's greatest untold athletic origin story.

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    1 分
  • Stoolball - Frying Pans at Lord's: The Bizarre 20th Century Comeback Nobody Expected

    Stoolball - Frying Pans at Lord's: The Bizarre 20th Century Comeback Nobody Expected
    2026/04/23
    Host Oly Bennet explores stoolball's 1920s comeback when Major William Wilson Grantham transformed a 500-year-old village game into a sporting phenomenon. From Lord's Cricket Ground to Buckingham Palace, he established over 1,000 clubs in four years, launching the world's oldest surviving bat-and-ball game into global prominence.

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    28 分
  • Stoolball - The Great Debate: Who Really Invented Cricket and Baseball?

    Stoolball - The Great Debate: Who Really Invented Cricket and Baseball?
    2026/04/23
    Host Oly Bennett explores stoolball, a 500-year-old English folk game, and its contested place in sports history. Did this milkmaid pastime inspire cricket, baseball, or both? The episode examines contradictory evidence from Francis Willughby's 1660s diagrams to modern research, uncovering the fierce historical debates surrounding stoolball's legacy in bat-and-ball sports evolution.

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    33 分
  • Stoolball - Milkmaids, Flirting, and the Filthiest Sport in Medieval England

    Stoolball - Milkmaids, Flirting, and the Filthiest Sport in Medieval England
    2026/04/23
    Join AI host Oly Bennet as he uncovers stoolball—the 500-year-old game invented by medieval milkmaids that became cricket and baseball's ancestor. From Shakespeare to the Pilgrims' Plymouth Rock scandal, this women-dominated sport shaped athletic history. Discover frying-pan bats, courtship rituals, and why Samuel Johnson put it in his dictionary.

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    27 分