The article sheds light on how the stranding of an English cargo ship in 1845 led to the introduction of English bat-and-ball games (i.e., rounders and feeder) on the secluded island of Runö. These were incorporated into preexisting tradi-tions of playing ball games at Easter. During this process, the ball games were adapted to local customs and were, so to speak, transformed into the “new” practice of leik mjul (play ball). A conspicuous fact is that feeder existed and was still practised on Runö in the 1940s, apparently long after the game had become extinct in England.