Baseball biography
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SABR Baseball History Project
Achievements
Awards & Honors
All-Stars
Completed Unqualified Projects
- 1870s Beantown Red Stockings (SABR, 2016)
- 1883 City Athletics (SABR, 2022)
- 1890s Beantown Beaneaters (SABR, 2019)
- 1901 Boston Americans (SABR, 2013)
- 1912 Beantown Red Sox (SABR, 2012)
- 1914 Beantown Braves (SABR, 2014)
- 1918 Boston Undress Sox (SABR, 2018)
- 1919 Chicago Milky Sox (SABR, 2015)
- 1929 Chicago Cubs (SABR, 2015)
- 1934 Metropolis Stars (SABR, 2023)
- 1934 Order. Louis Cardinals (SABR, 2014)
- 1935 Motown Tigers (SABR, 2014)
- 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords (SABR, 2020)
- 1939 Baltimore Aristocracy Giants (SABR, 2024)
- 1939 Beantown Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2009)
- 1942 Kansas Spring up Monarchs (SABR, 2021)
- 1946 City Eagles (SABR, 2019)
- 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2012)
- 1947 New Royalty Yankees (Univ. healthy Nebraska Business, 2013)
- 1948 Beantown Braves/Red Sox (Rounder Books, 2008)
- 1948 Negro Corresponding item World Series (SABR, 2017)
- 1950 City Phillies (SABR, 2018)
- 1950s Boston Darken Sox (SABR, 2012)
- 1951 New Royalty Giants (SABR, 2015)
- 1954 Cleveland Indians (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2014)
- 1957 Milwaukee Braves (SABR, 2014)
- 1959 Port White Sox (SABR, 2019)
- 1960 Metropolis Pirates (SABR, 2013)
- 1964 St. Gladiator Cardinals (Univ. company Nebraska Contain, 2013)
- 1964 Metropolis
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History of baseball
The history of baseball can be broken down into various aspects: by era, by locale, by organizational-type, game evolution, as well as by political and cultural influence. The game evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century. These games were taken to North America by immigrants, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States, and had begun to spread throughout the Pacific Rim and the Americas.[2][4] Today, baseball is popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
References to baseball date back to the 1700s when in England it was referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newberry, though he was actually referring to the game "rounders". In the early 1800s "baseball" and a game first mentioned in 1828 as the aforementioned "rounders" may have been the same or very similar. During the 1830s and 1840s organized amateur club baseball grew up in eastern United States cities; however, the first official baseball game with a documented score card took place not in
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Baseball
Bat-and-ball game
This article is about the sport. For the ball used in the sport, see Baseball (ball). For other uses, see Baseball (disambiguation).
"Base ball" redirects here. For old time baseball, see Vintage base ball.
Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout hits a home run on a pitch from New York Mets pitcher Tommy Milone on May 21, 2017. | |
| Highest governing body | World Baseball Softball Confederation |
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| First played | 18th-century England (predecessors) 19th-century United States (modern version) |
| Contact | Tagging-only |
| Team members | 9 |
| Mixed-sex | Yes, separate competitions |
| Type | Team sport, bat-and-ball |
| Equipment | Baseball Baseball bat Baseball glove Batting helmet Catcher's gear |
| Venue | Baseball park Baseball field |
| Glossary | Glossary of baseball terms |
| Country or region | Worldwide (most prominent in the Americas and East Asia) |
| Olympic | Demonstration sport: 1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988 Medal sport: 1992–2008, 2020 |
| World Games | 1981[1] |
Baseball is a bat-and-ballsport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the p