| Ball Games: Association Football, Baseball, Netball, Australian Rules Football, Field Hockey, Bandy, Rugby Union, Team Handball, J Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Group, Books (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1157555993 ISBN-13: 9781157555995 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $31.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.88 lbs) 220 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 219. Chapters: Baseball, Rugby union, Tennis, Football, Cricket, Association football, Water polo, Golf, Field hockey, Netball, Rugby league, Australian rules football, Mesoamerican ballgame, Bandy, Team handball, Lacrosse, Squash (sport), Backyard cricket, Sepak takraw, Muggle Quidditch, Cornish hurling, Slamball, Mesoamerican ballcourt, Floorball, Bowls, Juggling, Petanque, Jugger, Footbag, Valencian pilota, Pesapallo, Dodgeball, Roller hockey (Quad), Newcomb ball, Four square, Foot hockey, Guy Cobb, Butts Up, Carved Stone Balls. Excerpt: Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, |