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    Baseball originated in the 19th century in America, developing from older bat-and-ball games played in England. While its exact origins are unknown, Abner Doubleday is often credited with inventing the modern game in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. The game is played between two teams of nine players using bats, balls, gloves, and other equipment on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond shape.

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    Baseball originated in the 19th century in America, developing from older bat-and-ball games played in England. While its exact origins are unknown, Abner Doubleday is often credited with inventing the modern game in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. The game is played between two teams of nine players using bats, balls, gloves, and other equipment on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond shape.

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    Baseball originated in the 19th century in America, developing from older bat-and-ball games played in England. While its exact origins are unknown, Abner Doubleday is often credited with inventing the modern game in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. The game is played between two teams of nine players using bats, balls, gloves, and other equipment on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond shape.

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    BASEBALL

    The Origin of Baseball


    • The history of baseball dates to the 19th century, when boys and
    amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own
    informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of
    the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the
    1830–50s. Semi-professional baseball clubs followed in the
    1860s, and the first professional leagues arrived in the post-
    American Civil War 1870s.
    The exact origins of baseball are unknown,
    most historians agree that it is based on the
    English game of rounders. It began to
    become quite popular in the early 19th
    century, and many sources report the
    growing popularity of a game called
    “townball”, or “baseball”.
    Who Discovered Baseball?

    ABNER
    DOUBLEDAY
    ( 1819-1893)
    Who Discovered Baseball?
    Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career 
    United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired
    the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal
    role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but
    his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In
    San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs
    there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president
    of the Theosophical Society.
    In 1908, 15 years after his death, Doubleday was declared by the Mills Commission to
    have invented the game of baseball (a claim never made by Doubleday during his
    lifetime). This claim has been thoroughly debunked by baseball historians.
    What is Baseball

    • Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams,


    of nine players each, that take turns batting and fielding. The game
    proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher,
    throws a ball that a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat.
    The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the
    ball into the field of play and away from the other team's
    players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them
    advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are
    called "runs". The objective of the defensive team (fielding
    team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to
    prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored
    when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and
    touches home plate (the place where the player started as a
    batter). The team that scores the most runs by the end of the
    game is the winner.
    Rules and Regulation
    • Baseball has two teams of 9 players.

    • The fielding team's positions are made up of a pitcher, catcher, first


    baseman, second baseman, shortstop, third baseman, and three
    outfielders at left field, centre field and right field.

    • Games last for 9 innings of which both teams get to bat once. If the
    game is a tie after 9 innings then an extra inning will be added until a
    winner is found. If the team batting second in the bottom of the 9th
    inning are already ahead in points, then they do not need to complete
    their batting innings.
    • Once a batting order is picked, then it cannot be changed
    throughout the game. Substitutes are permitted, however, they
    must bat in the order of the previous player whom they replaced.

    • If the batter manages to hit the ball from the pitcher, they must
    make an effort to at least get to first base. They can then run to
    as many bases as they wish before being tagged out. Each base
    must be touched with some part of the batters body when
    running past.
    • A batter gets up to three strikes before getting out. A strike is deemed when
    a batter swings for a ball and misses it. The batter can leave the ball but, if it's
    within a certain area (called the 'strike zone'), then a strike will also be given.
    If four balls miss the strike zone and the batter does not swing their bat, they
    can walk to first base.

    • When on base, the batter can run to the next base at any point.

    • Players can be dismissed by either a 'strike out' (referring to a batsman


    missing the ball three times), 'force out' (when a player fails to make the base
    before the defensive player), 'fly out' (when the ball is hit in the air and
    caught without it bouncing), and 'tag outs' (where a defensive player with the
    ball tags the batsman with the ball all whilst they are running).
    Mechanics how to play Baseball

    • The object of baseball is to score more runs than


    your opponent. The idea is to hit the ball thrown
    at you as far as you can before running around 4
    bases to complete a run. Once a player manages to
    get around the four bases before being tagged out,
    then another batter steps in.
    Home plate to centerfield is 400 ft or more.
    Home plate to the nearest fence is 325 ft or
    more. The foul lines have a length of 320 ft
    or more. The rubber on the pitcher's mound
    measures 24in x 6in and is a distance of 60ft
    & 6in to home plate.
    Catcher is a position for a baseball or
    softball player. When a batter takes
    their turn to hit, the catcher crouches
    behind home plate, in front of the
    (home) umpire, and receives the ball
    from the pitcher.
    In baseball, the pitch is the
    act of throwing the baseball
    toward home plate to start a
    play.
    In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing
    pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A
    batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the
    pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a
    baserunner, to drive runners home or to advance runners
    along the bases for others to drive home, but the
    techniques and strategies they use to do so vary.
    The general consensus among baseball
    experts is that playing the right field is
    generally harder. The ball coming off the
    bat to the left field is commonly more
    predictable and has less of a spin to it.
    Most batters are righties and they rarely
    send balls of sliced pitches to the left
    field.
    EQUIPMENTS AND MATERIALS USED IN
    BASEBALL GAME

    Batting Helmet
    A helmet is worn by a batter to protect
    his/her head and the ear facing the pitcher
    from the ball. While some helmets have ear
    protectors only on one side as only the ear
    facing the pitcher should be protected,
    helmets with ear protectors on both sides
    are more common as some batters are left
    handed and some right handed.
    Uniform
    All players, coaches and
    managers wear shirts,
    pants, cap, and shoes.
    Each team has a uniform
    dress of a specific colour
    and design.
    Baseball Cleats
    These are baseball specific
    shoes made of rubber or metal
    that players wear for better
    traction.
    Baseball Bat
    Bat is a round, solid wooden or
    hollow aluminium bat. Wooden
    bats are traditionally made from
    ash wood, though sometimes
    maple and bamboo is also used.
    Gloves
    Players wear leather gloves to protect
    their palms. A webbed "pocket" between
    the thumb and first finger helps the
    fielder to catch the ball easily.
    ASSESSMENT

    1. What Is the other term for Baseball?


    2. Based on the discussion, what century when did Baseball began?
    3. Who introduced Baseball?
    4. Traditionally made from ash wood, though sometimes maple and bamboo
    is also used.
    5. Layers of yarn or string is rolled on a cork sphere.
    6-10. Enumerate five Equipment and Materials used n Baseball.
    Answer key:

    1.TownBall
    2.19 century
    3.Abner Doubleday
    4.Baseball bat
    5.Baseball ball
    6-10. Batting Helmet, Uniform, Baseball Cleats,
    Baseball Bat, Ball, Gloves

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