Baseball

Baseball is a bat and ball game played between two teams of nine, one batting and one fielding at any moment, over nine innings (each a turn at bat for each side). A member of the batting team scores a run by hitting a pitched ball and circuiting all four bases, first, second, third and home, without being put out; the side with more runs after nine innings wins, extra innings being played if the score is tied. The Abner Doubleday origin story is a documented myth with no contemporary evidence behind it (see the recorded dissent on this entity's origin-year fact). The Knickerbocker Rules, codified by Alexander Cartwright in New York in 1845, are the earliest organized modern ruleset; the game itself descends from older English bat and ball games, principally rounders and stoolball, played in America since colonial times. The fielding team stations a pitcher and catcher (the battery), four infielders (first, second and third basemen and a shortstop) and three outfielders (left, center and right field); a batter is put out chiefly by striking out (three strikes), by a fielder catching a batted ball before it touches the ground, or by a fielder holding the ball while touching a base ahead of a runner forced to reach it (a force out) or tagging a runner not on a base. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/