Originally an early nineteenth century variation of a venerable English game, baseball, by the late twentieth century, had developed into America's "national pastime," a game so indelibly entwined with American culture and society...

game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four white bases laid out in a diamond (i.e., a square oriented so that its diagonal line is vertical). Teams alternate positions as batters (offense) and...

Established in 1889, the Middle States Baseball League included two African American teams, the New York Gorhams and the Cuban Giants, and white teams from Harrisburg, Norristown, Lebanon, Lancaster, York, and Hazelton (all in Pennsylvania). Each team...

Game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players (or 10, if a designated hitter bats and runs for the pitcher). Baseball is played on a large field that has four bases laid out in a square, positioned like a diamond, whose outlines...

Baseball, America's favorite pastime, is rooted in the English games of cricket and rounders. In colonial times, children in Boston, Massachusetts played variations of these games, including "one-o-cat," (using one base and three players) and "...

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square,...