An overview of baseball
Baseball is arguably America’s most popular game. It is a bat and ball game played by to competing teams of nine players each. The aim of the game is to score points through runs. To do this a ball is thrown and is hit with a bat and the hitter has to run and touch four markers or bases arranged at the corners of the diamond spot. The players on the offensive teams would take turn throwing the ball and trying to score runs while the defensive team tries to stop them by getting the hitters out using different ways. The teams switch between offence and defense as soon as the defensive teams get three out on the hitter. Each offensive play for a team is considered an inning, nine innings makes up a game. At the end of nine innings the team with the most number of runs wins the game.
In North America the professional league teams are divided into the National League and the American League. Each of these is further divided into three, the east, west and Central divisions. Towards the end of a league year four teams per division would play the play offs of that division. The winner of the play offs becomes champions of the Major League Baseball and qualifies for the World Series. Apart from the US baseball is enjoyed and passionately played and followed in other parts of the world. In regions such as East Asia, the Caribbean, South America, North America and Central America and even in South Africa the game is played at amateur, youth and professional levels
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