"kittenball" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From kitten + ball.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2004, Peggy Sanders, The Civilian Conservation Corps: In and Around the Black Hills, page 35:",
          "text": "Another sport, kittenball, also called diamond ball, was played more often than baseball because the games were 7 innings long. Kittenball also required less equipment therefore it was cheaper to field a team.",
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          "ref": "2018, Paul Assink, Looking Back, page 62:",
          "text": "We called it \"kittenball\" in those days. For what reason I never thought to ask and still have not discovered. But it was softball, the twelve inch variety with the fast, underhand pitch.",
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  "word": "kittenball"
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  "etymology_text": "From kitten + ball.",
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