Baseball is a sporting game, whereby only a baseball bat, baseball glove and a ball are used, it is played between two teams, one is called the batting team and the other is the fielding team each consisting of nine players. Goals are awarded depending on the numbers of runs, of which to complete one run a player has to hit a ball thrown at him and then touchdown on a series of four bases arranged at the corners of the diamond, which is a ninety-foot square playing field. A team with the most runs definitely will have the most goals, consequently making them winners of the match. Players in the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, and the other players in the fielding team strive to prevent them from scoring complete runs by challenging their hitters. However a player in the batting team can stop at any of the four bases and later move forward using another teammate's hit.
It is important to note that when the fielding team records three outs, the teams switch sides from either fielding to batting or vice versa. One turn at a bat earns the team an inning and nine innings is what constitutes a professional game (Fleming, 1981, 122-131).
History
Rader (2008, 12-17) in his studies documented about the origins of baseball, and he asserts that it can be proven baseball originated from England. Rader further claims that the direct antecedents of baseball were the English games of stoolball and the tut-ball. The earlier documentation of the game can be traced back to the British publication titled "A little Pretty Pocket" that was written by John Newbery in 1744, this book largely talked about the basics of the game including the tactics involved when playing. Mr. William Bray an English lawyer later followed in the year 1755, with his own personal record of a baseball match on the Easter Monday of 1755 in his own personal diary. Historians have used these two pieces of...
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