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Also known as America's pastime, ⚾

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The

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Baseball is a sport identified by the OpenStreetMap tag "sport=baseball" and represented by the Unicode character "⚾". It is categorized under the Commons category "Baseball" and has a corresponding Commons gallery. The sport has a maximum of 9 players.

The subject is referenced by 38,659 other encyclopedia articles. In medical literature, PubMed contains 6,016 entries associated with the query "baseball". The NCI Thesaurus ID for the subject is "C94742".

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Key facts

Sport.name: Baseball
Sport.image: File:Tommy Milone gives up a home run to Mike Trout on May 21, 2017.jpg
Sport.imagesize: 300px
Sport.caption: Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout hits a home run off a pitch from New York Mets pitcher Tommy Milone on May 21, 2017.
Sport.union: World Baseball Softball Confederation
Sport.first: 18th-century England (predecessors)19th-century United States (modern version)
Sport.type: Team sport, bat-and-ball
Sport.venue: Baseball parkBaseball field
Sport.glossary: Glossary of baseball terms
Sport.region: Worldwide (most prominent in the Americas and East Asia)
Sport.contact: Tagging-only
Sport.equipment: Baseball Baseball bat Baseball gloveBatting helmetCatcher's gear
Sport.team: 9 baseball players:pitchercatcherfirst basemansecond basemanthird basemanshortstopleft fieldercenter fielderright fielder
Sport.mgender: Yes, separate competitions
Sport.category: Bat-and-ball
Sport.olympic: Demonstration sport: 1912, 1936, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1984 and 1988Medal sport: 1992–2008, 2020
Sport.IWGA: 1981