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WWW.WHALEBOOKS.COM

A L E X K E U L S

WHALE BOOKS PRESENTS

AT THE END OF THE WORLD

THE OCEAN

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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.

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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.

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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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