Most longtime fans of baseball know that the game was derived from long-established sports played in a similar fashion with a ball and some form of a large stick ~ and a person throwing the ball to another person holding the stick, like cricket. How are baseball and cricket different? The main difference between cricket …
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The major sports of American football and baseball often get lumped together, despite the very big differences between them in terms of rules and fields of play. For instance, football fields are measured in yards, whereas baseball fields are gauged in feet. Some of our readers asked, how many yards is a baseball field? The …
Every player or fan who loves tense moments in baseball dreams of the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, full count scenario. It is arguably the most pressure-filled situation in all of sports. But what makes that moment so tense is not the fact that it is late in the game and there …
Have you watched an MLB game recently and noticed an umpire stop a pitcher in his tracks and ask to look at his hat and glove? No, he is not asking for an autograph. He is looking to see if the pitcher is using any foreign substances to gain a better grip on the ball. …
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Each baseball season, without a doubt, sportscasters will rave about an unusual or rarely seen play out on the field. But are they all that unusual? It made us want to dig deeper, to explore and discover the rarest play in baseball. The rarest play in baseball is the unassisted triple play. This occurs when …
Fielding Independent Pitching, or FIP, is among many new terms and acronyms used in modern baseball. It’s a statistic to judge pitchers’ performances based only on what he can control, and not on plays dependent upon fielders. So, exactly what is FIP in baseball? Essentially, the FIP judges a pitcher based only on certain statistics: …
People who watch their first youth baseball games can compare with what they’ve seen on television, and probably wonder why the TV contests seem to last so much longer. We know adult baseball games are 9 innings, but how many innings are there in Little League games? Games sanctioned by the Little League Baseball organization …
In today’s youth baseball universe, parents most likely will not go more than a couple of seasons before hearing the term travel ball, or club ball. This advanced level of competition takes young players away from their traditional locally based youth baseball leagues, and gets them out on the road. While most parents would be …
You have probably heard the old adage about “drawing a line in the sand.” This quote is a metaphor for setting protective boundaries. In other words, it says, “This is as far as I will go.” Baseball has its own version of drawing a line, only these lines are typically drawn in the dirt, and …
These days, most of the baseball highlights we see on TV and social media are players hitting home runs and pitchers throwing fastballs in the high 90s and even triple digits. We don’t often see as many defensive plays as we used to see, but that does not mean defense is not an important aspect …
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