Definition

It is a sport known worldwide, beginning in North America around 1869. Baseball is played professional, college, and simply in the backyard. It is a sport loved by many, and watched everyday on TV. It is considered America’s pastime, but it is always well known all around the world. Baseball originated from Romania. Baseball is considered to be a sport between two teams of nine players each. A “major sport” is in today’s world what it would be called.

A similar game played in Romania, with a bat and a ball is where we got baseball from, and this was discovered by the king Vlaicu Voda, in 1364. A wood cut bat is the illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a baseball set-up very similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport. The earliest known unambiguous American discussion of "baseball" was published in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town by law that didn’t allow the playing of the game within 80 yards of the town's meeting house. Jane Austin made a reference to children playing baseball in her book Northhanger Abbey. Compared with the present day, baseball games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. Now it seems like that everyone that is on the team is very successful. Whether you riding the bench or the starting short-stop.

The "inside game", nature was to "scratch for runs", was played more violently and aggressively than it is today. Baseball is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The object of baseball is to score runs by hitting a ball thrown, with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or what they would call a diamond. Unlike the majority of sports, baseball playing fields can vary significantly, within certain guidelines, in size and shape of the field. Players on one team take turns hitting while the other team tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting