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David Pietrusza Major Leagues: The Formation, Sometimes Absorption and Mostly Inevitable Demise of 18 Professional Baseball Organizations, 1871 to Present Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 1991. ISBN 0-89950-590-2; William J. Ryczek Blackguards and Red Stockings: A History of Baseball's National Association Jefferson (NC): McFarland ...
A national sports team (commonly known as a national team or a national side) is a team that represents a nation, rather than a particular club or region, in an international sport. The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for example association football (soccer), curling, or basketball. However, it can be applied to groups of ...
Player League Team(s) Years as two-way player Wins Losses ERA Batting average HRs RBI Notes Rick Ankiel [29] MLB: St. Louis Cardinals: 1999–2001, 2004: 13: 10: 3.90.240: 76: 251: Ankiel was the first player since Babe Ruth to have won 10 or more games in a season, and to hit 50 career home runs. Nixey Callahan [30] MLB: Philadelphia Phillies ...
The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and Hall of Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank "Home Run" Baker, Jimmie Foxx, and Lefty Grove. The team left Philadelphia for Kansas City, Missouri, in 1955 and became the Kansas City Athletics, before moving to Oakland, California, in 1968 and becoming the Oakland ...
A 13U baseball parent from another organization told me last night that with team fees and travel expenses he spent 22,000 dollars for his son to play 13U baseball this past year.
It is possible to record two outs in the course of the same play. This is called a double play. Three outs in one play, a triple play, is possible, though rare. Players put out or retired must leave the field, returning to their team's dugout or bench. A runner may be stranded on base when a third out is recorded against another player on the team.
The National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) was the first organization governing American baseball (spelled as two words in the 19th century). The first convention of 16 New York City area clubs was held at Smith's Hotel, 462 Broome Street in January 1857.
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 generally 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.