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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal 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 ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (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; 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 and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.
In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the champion of Major League Baseball 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, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill. (more...)
Curse of the Colonel (カーネルサンダースの呪い, Kāneru Sandāsu no noroi?) refers to an urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot Colonel Harland Sanders. The curse was said to be placed on the team because of the Colonel's anger over treatment of one of his store-front statues. The Hanshin Tigers are located in Kansai, the second largest metropolitan area in Japan. They are considered the eternal underdogs of Nippon Professional Baseball, in opposition to the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, who are considered the kings of Japanese baseball. The devoted fans flock to the stadium no matter how badly the Tigers play in the league. As is common with sports-related curses, the Curse of the Colonel is used to explain the Japan Championship Series drought that the Hanshin Tigers have had to endure since their first and only victory in the 1985 Japan Championship. The curse is said to have happened when Hanshin fans, excited over winning the 1985 championship series, tossed the statue of Colonel Sanders into the Dōtonbori River. Since then, fans have said they would never win another Japan Series until the statue was recovered. Comparisons are often made between the Hanshin Tigers and the Boston Red Sox, who were also said to be under a curse, the Curse of the Bambino, until they won the World Series in 2004. The "Curse of the Colonel" has also been used as a boogeyman threat to those who would divulge the secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices that makes the unique taste of KFC chicken.
James Robert "Loafer" McAleer (July 10, 1864 – April 29, 1931) was an American center fielder, manager, and stockholder in Major League Baseball who helped establish the American League. He spent most of his 13-season playing career with the Cleveland Spiders, and went on to manage the Cleveland Blues, St. Louis Browns, and Washington Senators. Shortly before his retirement, he became a major shareholder in the Boston Red Sox.
His career ended abruptly. During his brief tenure as co-owner of the Red Sox, McAleer quarreled with longtime friend and colleague Ban Johnson, president of the American League. In the wake of this disagreement, he sold off his shares in the Red Sox and broke off his relationship with Major League Baseball.
McAleer's rift with Johnson, along with his sudden retirement, damaged his professional reputation, and he received little recognition for his contributions to baseball.[1] Today, he is most often remembered for initiating the customary request that the President of the United States throw out the first ball of the season.
The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball franchise based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the National League East division. Also known in their early years as the "Philadelphia Quakers", pitchers for the Phillies have thrown nine separate no-hitters in franchise history. Of the nine no-hitters pitched by Phillies players, three have been won by a score of 6–0, more common than any other result. The largest margin of victory in a Phillies no-hitter was ten runs, in a 10–0 win by Chick Fraser. Two Phillies players have won their no-hitters by a one-run margin; Charlie Ferguson's no-hitter, the first in franchise history, was a 1–0 victory, as was the most recent no-hitter, thrown by Kevin Millwood in 2003. Two pitchers to throw no-hitters for the Phillies have been left-handed: Johnny Lush (in 1906) and Terry Mulholland (in 1990). The other seven pitchers were right-handed. No pitcher has thrown more than one no-hitter in a Phillies uniform, though some, including Hall of Famer Jim Bunning, have pitched more than one in their careers. The longest interval between Phillies no-hitters was between the games pitched by Lush and Bunning, encompassing 58 years, 1 month, and 20 days. Conversely, the shortest interval between no-hitters was between Mulholland's and Tommy Greene's games, with a total of merely 9 months and 8 days. A different umpire presided over each of the Phillies' nine no-hitters, including Wes Curry, who created Major League Baseball's catcher interference rule. One perfect game, a special subcategory of no-hitter, has been pitched in Phillies history. This feat was achieved by Bunning in 1964 and was the first perfect game in the National League since 1880. As defined by Major League Baseball, "[in] a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game."
| We are and have been traveling along a fictitious prosperity for the last two or three years, and the sooner we step down the better it will be for the game and everybody concerned. Next season may not be so good for the owners. Good times have affected their heads and they are unconsciously doing baseball an almost irreparable injury by inflating the price on players as they have this year. There is likely to be a slump in baseball and then some of the owners will wish they had kept the strings tied to their pocketbooks.
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New York Times
Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:31 -0700
He loves playing baseball.” Despite his life experience, Falcone said he was “26 going on 19.” Nick Ferraresi, 22, a senior co-captain, described him as a “little kid in a big body.” Ferraresi added: “Even though he is a first-year player, he caught on ...
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USA TODAY
Sun, 19 May 2013 11:59:44 -0700
Senior Peter Poole's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning scored fellow senior Campbell to lift Savannah State to a 1-0 victory Sunday against Bethune-Cookman in the finale of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in Norfolk, Va. The ...
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Bangor Daily News
Sat, 18 May 2013 17:59:18 -0700
HARWICH, Mass. — Logan Carman threw a seven-hit shutout to give the University of Southern Maine the NCAA Division III New England Regional Tournament title with a 9-0 victory over Endicott College Sunday. The victory gave the Huskies a berth in the ...
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Boston Globe
Sun, 19 May 2013 01:38:49 -0700
He brought in Lyle Overbay to replace the injured Mark Teixeira, signed Kevin Youkilis to a one-year, $12 million deal, traded for Vernon Wells, using $7 million of the insurance money the team received when Teixeira got hurt at the World Baseball ...
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Daily Beast
Sun, 19 May 2013 01:47:11 -0700
Can baseball continue to define an America that's fending off decline rather than rocketing to the top? Yes, look beyond major league to the lowest level of the minor leagues. First-time author Lucas Mann recounts the season he spent with the single-A ...
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The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com
Sun, 19 May 2013 16:20:09 -0700
Enlarge scottmapes May 18, 2013: An addison player fires over to first base while playing in the Brent Beeler Memorial bracket during the Al Glick Baseball Classic championship game at Jackson High School. (Scott Mapes | For MLive.com) 5-18-13: Addison ...
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OregonLive.com
Sun, 19 May 2013 17:30:39 -0700
That's when a ball hit by Michael Conforto landed on the roof of the Ducks' bullpen for a second-inning grand slam. The Beavers spent the rest of the afternoon removing any lingering doubt about where the best college baseball team in the state resides.
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MLive.com
Sun, 19 May 2013 11:35:05 -0700
Tonight's series finale will be air on ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" at 8 p.m. EST. It's the second "Sunday Night Baseball" game Fister will start this year. -- The Tigers have hit .215 and totaled 13 runs in losing three of four. They've dropped ...
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