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Bagatelle: about 1933. A billiardlike game. Players got ten shots for a nickel, attempting to hit a mark or drop a ball in a hole across a long table.
Minature Golf: The first course was built in Chattanooga by Garnett Carter in 1927, but the game did not became a craze until 1930 and 1931, after which it dropped quickly in popularity. At its height there were an estimated 20 million players on 25,000 courses. What started out as an upperclass phenomenon later became a middle-class pastime.
Snow Bat: about 1933. It was a complicated baseball variant played with snowballs thrown at a furious pace by a pitcher "assisted by snowball makers. Hitter swung a racket-type bat, while a snow catcher held a protective shield. A designated runner could keep circling the bases for the batter until the batter finally missed.
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