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The NRA is the National Governing Body for Rounders
National Rounders Association
In 1943 the Women’s Team Games Board decided the range and scope of the sport were such as to make it necessary to form a National Rounders Association. It was to be responsible for the rules of the game and for arranging National tests for Umpires and Coaches. Its aims were to foster in every way the development of the game. Rounders remained mainly a game for school children, but played by adults on a beach or in the parks although leagues did exist and flourish in places such as St. Helens and Sheffield where they were based on works sports clubs. Then in 1968 the Sheffield Works Sports Association affiliated to the NRA. The association had been formed in 1919 and a Rounders section had been started in 1961 although St Helens was the first post war league to be formed.
Rounders is played by boys and girls, men and women in every county, at different levels, from friendly games to International matches. It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small hard leather cased ball with a round wooden or metal bat and then running around 4 bases or posts in order to score a rounder. Bowlers can bowl at over 60mph and batters can hit the ball at more than that. Rounders is supported by many Local Authority Leisure Services Departments and has media support to various degrees from local newspapers and radio stations and has featured on TV in local news items. Rounders is accepted by Sport England who give annual grant aid to the NRA for certain aspects of their work and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts has funded the setting up of the Awards Scheme.
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