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Overview of Baseball's History and Rules

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and running around four bases. The teams alternate between batting and fielding, with the fielding team trying to get batters out. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games and was brought to North America by immigrants, where the modern version developed and became the dominant sport in the United States. Major League Baseball teams in the US and Canada are divided into the National and American Leagues which determine champions through playoffs culminating in the World Series.

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Overview of Baseball's History and Rules

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players. The objective is to score more runs than the opposing team by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and running around four bases. The teams alternate between batting and fielding, with the fielding team trying to get batters out. Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games and was brought to North America by immigrants, where the modern version developed and became the dominant sport in the United States. Major League Baseball teams in the US and Canada are divided into the National and American Leagues which determine champions through playoffs culminating in the World Series.

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Baseball

The nine positions of a team's defense


Mid-18th century or prior, England or Flanders (early form)
First played June 19, 1846, Hoboken, New Jersey (first recorded game with codified
rules)
Characteristics
Team members 9
Categorization Bat-and-ball
Baseball
Baseball bat
Equipment
Baseball glove
Bases
Demonstrated in 1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984, and 1988 Summer
Olympics
In Summer Olympic program, 1992–2008
Olympic

This article is about the sport. For the ball used in the sport, see Baseball (ball). For other uses, see
Baseball (disambiguation).

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The nine positions of a team's defense

First played Mid-18th century or prior, England or Flanders (early form)

June 19, 1846, Hoboken, New Jersey (first recorded game with codified rules)

Characteristics

Team members 9
Categorization Bat-and-ball

Equipment Baseball

Baseball bat

Baseball glove

Bases

Olympic Demonstrated in 1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984, and 1988 Summer Olympics

In Summer Olympic program, 1992–2008

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

The offense attempts to score more runs than its opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a
bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run
is scored when the runner 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 can stop at any of
the bases and later advance on a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and
fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the
visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the most runs at the end of
the game wins.

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the
mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version
developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United
States. Baseball is now popular in North America and parts of Central and South America and the
Caribbean, East Asia and Europe.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the
National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.
The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. The top level of
play is similarly split in Japan between the Central League and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the
West League and East League.

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