Baseball is a bat-and-ball game that originated from older European games and was developed in North America in the 1840s. It is played between two teams of nine players on a baseball field, with the objective of scoring more runs than the opposing team by batting a ball into play and advancing around four bases. The game has many rules regarding equipment, field dimensions, pitching, batting, baserunning, and sportsmanship. Common baseball equipment includes gloves, bats, helmets, and uniforms.

1. Baseball
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2. Introduction
For hundreds of years people in many parts of the world have played "bat
and ball" games. In these games, a player on one team throws a ball and
a player on the other team tries to hit the ball with a bat and score runs.
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3. Origins
In the eighteenth century, many people from Great Britain and Europe
travelled to the new colonies in North America to settle. These settlers took
along traditional games that their families had been playing for generations,
including several bat and ball games such as Ireland's "rounders" and
Germany's "schlagball". During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new
variations like "town ball", "goal ball" and "round ball" appeared. Each form
of the game had its followers, but none really dominated until the 1840's
when New York fireman Alexander Joy Cartwright helped develop a new
variation of "town ball" called "baseball".
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4. Characteristics
• Baseball is played between two teams of nine players on a specially-built
baseball field, with up to four umpires in charge of a game. The teams take
turns throwing the ball, or pitching, and batting.
• If the batter doesn't hit a pitch that is in the strike zone, meaning it's over
the plate and not too high or too low, the umpire calls a strike. If three
strikes are called, the batter is out. If the batter hits a pitch and the ball is
caught by one of the fielders, the batter is also out.
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5. Rules and regulations
• Keep the helmet on. A player can't remove his helmet while at bat or running the bases. A first offense
draws a warning from the umpire. A second violation results in the player being called out.
• Fair ball. A batted baseball is fair if it lands in the field of play or if it touches or passes first or third base
within fair territory. The point to make to batters is to run hard to first base whenever they hit the
baseball.
• Tie goes to the runner. If the runner can be forced out at a base and he arrives there at the same instance
the fielder catches the ball, the runner is considered safe.
• Baserunning. A runner must touch each base when going around the infield and won’t score a run until he
touches first, second and third base and then home plate in succession. A baserunner can’t pass a fellow
runner in front of him when rounding the bases. He also can’t run more than three feet away from his
baseline to avoid being tagged out unless he is trying to avoid interference with a fielder.
• Tagging out. To tag out a runner, a fielder must touch him with the ball or with his glove when the ball is
in.
• Make the right pitch. A pitcher has to keep one foot on the rubber during his windup and must come to a
complete stop during it.
• Sportsmanship. Major league players can’t argue balls and strikes. Stress that your players show respect
to the umpires as well as coaches and players. Umpires make the decisions. It’s a life skill that outweighs
all your baseball drills and skills.

6. Equipment
• Sneakers.
• Stockings to the knees.
• A shell.
• The team jersey.
• Long pants.
• Cap.
• Glove to catch the ball.
• “Guantillas”, this if put in the hands and generally used to bat and to avoid that the
bat is slipped.
• Bat.
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7. Players
• Baseball is played between two teams each team of nine players.
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8. Court sizes
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9. Articles
F R H E
Yankees
(32-22, 15-14
Visitante)
2 6 0
Blue Jays
(28-29, 17-14 Local)
3 7 1
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F R H E
Red Sox
(31-25, 14-15
Visitante)
7 9 0
Orioles
(29-26, 19-10 Local)
3 9 1
Andrew Benintendi fired a pair of
home runs, Chris Sale covered six
innings to score his sixth straight win
and the Boston Red Sox defeated the
Baltimore Orioles 7-3 Sunday.
Eugenio Suarez and Scooter Gennett hit
double two-race tugs in a row in the
seventh inning, and the Cincinnati Reds
came from behind to beat the St. Louis
Cardinals on Monday.