KRÓL PALANTA
Today, a handful of ethnologists sport tries to save them from oblivion. Professor. Lipoński is one of them. Just how rich is the Polish tradition, evidenced by numerous records of our chroniclers and ethnologists, ranging from John Dlugosz, by Jędrzej Kitowicz, Luke, and Luke Gołębiewski Górnickiego and Oskar Kolberg. They described a variety of games grown in Polish by different social strata. Today, this part of our heritage, not only does not exist, but hardly anyone remembers it. According to prof. Lipoński, ethnologists and ethnographers too long ignored the sport as a phenomenon of culture. Between the prof. Eugeniusz Piasecki information gathered about two thousand. Polish variety of different games and activities. He wanted to introduce them to the school physical education in schools, just as they did other countries that educate their young people, using their own traditions in the field of sports and entertainment.
Professor. Lipoński wrote on behalf of UNESCO comprehensive encyclopedia of traditional sports (Encyclopedia of world sports, 2001, and in the later years of English and French-language versions). Among the more than three thousand. a variety of games and sports, lists dozens of Polish. These include for example: jerk, rochwist, kułajki, krukwie, clip, Grela, a number of horse riding, shooting and archery. These sports are almost exclusively in the literature. With the exception of a few villages, one day they do not grow. The longest in the "field of battle" was left with the most popular sport at the same time the most developed - jerk. In 1918, it was introduced into school curricula. There was also the league system in baseball. In 1957, the Polish Football Association was founded Bat. The game was, however, in 1967 ridiculed in "Politics" by Daniel Passent. In 1978 PZPP been transformed into a Polish Baseball and Softball. This is what the U.S., it turned out "better" than Polish, even though very similar.
Despite the negative associations of the word "jerk", the game has survived in some parts of the country. The most famous game geeks are held in Grabow near Le.czyca. The title "palantowego King" does not raise there any negative associations, on the contrary - it is very honorable and desirable. Rozgrywkom patron of such local priest. Grabowiec baseball tradition has at least 300 years - the oldest records of practicing this sport in Grabow come from the seventeenth century. Professor. Lipoński is a keen observer and a frequent visitor grabowieckich palantowych games and celebrations.
