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All about Baseball
History of baseball in theUnited States
The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 19th
century, when amateurs played a baseballlike game by their own
informal rules using home made equipment. The popularity of the
sport inspired the semipro national baseball clubs in the 1860s.
The earliest known mention of baseball in the U.S was a 1791
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game
within 80 yards (73 m) of the town meeting house. In 1903, the British
sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that
baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick
had played as a boy in England. But baseball executive Albert
Spalding disagreed. Baseball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an
American sport and began on American soil. To settle the matter, the
two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the
fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball
Clubs. The commission, which also included six other sports
executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner
Doubleday invented the national pastime. This would have been a
surprise to Doubleday. The late Civil War hero "never knew that he
had invented baseball". But 15 years after his death, he was anointed
as the father of the game", writes baseball historian John Thorn.
A baseball field, also called a ball field or a baseball diamond, is the
field upon which the game of baseball is played. The term is also used
as a metonym for baseball park.
The starting point for much of the action on the field is home plate,
which is a fivesided slab of whitened rubber, 17 inches square with two
of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent
sides are 8 1∕2 inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and setat an angle to make a point. Adjacent to each of the two parallel 8 1∕2inch sides is a batter's box. The point of home plate where the two 12
inch sides meet at right angles is at one corner of a ninetyfoot square.
The other three corners of the square, in counterclockwise order from
home plate, are called first base, second base, and third base. Three
canvas bags fifteen inches (38 cm) square mark the three bases. These
three bags along with home plate form the four points at the corners of
the infield.
Baseball Field
Different Positions in BaseballThere are 9 fielding positions in baseball. Each position
conventionally has an associated number, which is used to score
putouts: 1 (pitcher), 2 (catcher), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second
baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (shortstop), 7 (left fielder), 8
(center fielder), and 9 (right fielder).
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