Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding.

The batting team attempts to score runs by hitting a ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a bat swung by the batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases and returns to home plate.

Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates' turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning. A game comprises nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball is the only major team sport in America with no game clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning.

Baseball (disambiguation)

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams.

Baseball may also refer to:

Sports and games

  • Baseball (ball), the ball used in baseball
  • British baseball, game played in a few parts of Britain
  • Vintage base ball, a sport using 19th-century baseball rules
  • Baseball (1971 video game), a mainframe computer game
  • Baseball (1977 video game), a video game for RCA Studio II
  • Baseball (1983 video game), a video game by Nintendo
  • Home Run (video game) or Baseball, a 1978 game for the Atari 2600
  • Baseball (card game), a card game simulating the sport
  • Baseball (drinking game), a game using ping-pong balls and cups of beer
  • Baseball, a variation of stud poker
  • Music

  • Baseball (band), a band from Melbourne, Australia
  • The Baseballs, a German rockabilly band
  • Baseball: An Album by Sayanything, a 2001 album by Say Anything
  • "Baseball", a song by Milkshake
  • Television

  • Baseball (TV series), a 1994 documentary series by Ken Burns
  • Other

  • Baseball (bomb), an unsuccessful type of bouncing bomb, intended for use by Royal Navy attack boats in place of torpedoes
  • Baseball (drinking game)

    Beer-Baseball is a drinking game in which players shoot a ping-pong ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in one of several cups of beer on the other end, doing so in a way combining beer pong and flip cup. The game typically consists of two teams of even numbers, one on each side of a table, and four cups set up on each side. The cups are lined up in a straight line representing the bases with the last cup at the edge of the table.

    When a ball lands in a cup, the defending team must consume all of the beer inside that cup and all the cups below it, e.g. if the third cup is hit (a triple), the third, second and first cup are consumed. The cups are filled according to their position on the table. The cup closest to the opposing team is 1/4 full, the second cup is 1/2 full, the third cup is 3/4 full and the final cup nearest the edge is full. It is also common to have a glass of water with the purpose of cleaning the ball between throws. After consumption the cup is refilled to the appropriate level and placed back on the table.

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    Baseball Bill

    by: Echo & The Bunnymen

    Here I go, it must be four in a row
    I gotta get my head down tonight
    But you know I know when the streets are aglow
    I'll be heading for the city of light
    You need talkin' to me?
    'Cause I don't wanna know, no no no
    You can't even see
    What's already on show, oh oh oh
    I'm hitting my prime and you're wasting my time
    You're denominator commonest low
    My head's burning up and I'm down on my luck
    See you in the 48th row
    With a matchbox full and a sulfurous skull
    Trying to set my mind to rights
    I'm gonna burn, burn, burn, as the universe turns
    Out of mind and out of sight
    You need talkin' to me?
    'Cause I don't wanna know, no no no
    You can't even see
    What's already on show, oh oh oh
    Baseball Bill went in for the kill
    He blew it when he found his soul
    Lost his will to live when he saw someone give
    'Cause giving always takes its toll
    You need talkin' to me?
    'Cause I don't wanna know, no no no
    You can't even see
    What's already on show, oh oh oh
    You talkin' to me?
    'Cause I don't wanna know, no no no
    You can't even see
    What's already on show, oh oh oh
    Ooh, Baseball Bill
    Ooh, Baseball Bill
    Ooh, Baseball Bill




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