And then there is that
extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball,
tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.