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Croquet - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 9th May, 2007 - 8:04pm
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Croquet
When I saw this sport on television many years ago I thought it was the most boring sport I have ever seen (it beats cricket!) 
How do you like croquet?
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| Croquet is a game played both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport which involves hitting wooden or plastic balls with a mallet through hoops embedded into the grass playing arena. It seems that the origin of this game is found in the game of "mail" (as in "hammer" in old French) played in the french countryside during middle-ages. Borrowed by the British during the 14th century, the modern game was apparently invented in Ireland in the 1830s as a distant cousin of golf and taken to England as a pastime of the aristocracy in the 1850s, and by the 1870 to its colonies. It may have evolved from the earlier mallet and ball game pall mall. |
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