Lapta (game)
Lapta (Лапта) is a Russian ball game ( bat-and-ball games ), similar to the German rounders or the Romanian oină .
According to the Russian Lapta Federation, wooden bats and leather balls, the origin of which is dated to the 14th century, were found in Veliky Novgorod . The game may have been brought to the west coast of the United States by Russian settlers around 1840. In 1935, the Soviet Union officially claimed that baseball was a Russian invention.
The most prominent player is Lenin's revolutionary companion, Leon Trotsky , who later , pushed out of government, party and state by Stalin , went into exile in Mexico.
There have been championships of the Russian Federation since 1958, and since 1959 the game has also been on the program of the RSFSR's Spartakiads .
The word Lapta translates as “bat” and describes the approximately 120 cm long and 4 cm wide wooden bat with which the ball must be hit. The rectangular playing field is 70 m long and 35 m wide. A 15 m deep base is separated on both ends , from which the home base must be reached again after walking back and forth in order to score points. A game lasts 2 × 30 minutes.
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- Marcus Rosenstein: The Ball Sports Lexicon. The ball and ball games of the world , Berlin (Weinmann), 1997. ISBN 3-87892-062-8