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However, in 1998, USSSA rebranded the name to United States Specialty Sports Association, because it expanded into other sports, including youth girls fastpitch, boys baseball, youth basketball, martial arts and more. USSSA governs 13 sports across the US, Puerto Rico, various US Military bases and Canada, and has a membership of over 3.7 million.
History. The uncaught third strike rule is one of the oldest in baseball, being codified in the Knickerbocker Rules of 1845: "Three balls being struck at and missed and the last one caught, is a hand-out." The rule goes back even further, though. A 1796 German book on recreational games for youth contained a chapter on "English Base-ball" which ...
PONY Baseball and Softball (ages 5–18) Sam Bat Fall League Baseball (ages 12 to 18) Wood-bat fall leagues designed to help players develop their skills. Leagues are sponsored by Sam Bat. USSSA Baseball (ages 8U to 14U) American Amateur Baseball Congress (AABC) is for players above junior-baseball age. It provides progressive and continuous ...
BBCOR (Bat-ball coefficient of restitution) is a baseball bat performance standard created by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to certify the performance of composite baseball bats used in competition. [1] From the standard: To initiate the certification process for all baseball bats that are constructed with materials other ...
In baseball, batting out of turn or batting out of order refers to an event in which a batter makes a plate appearance out of sequence from the batting order specified in the lineup card submitted by the manager to the home plate umpire before the start of the game. The initial batting order is a list of the nine position players selected by ...
The NFHS Rules Committees approved a set of rule changes for high school baseball and softball, which are set to go into effect for the 2025 season.
The Official Professional Baseball Rules Book governs all aspects of the game of Major League Baseball beyond what happens on the field of play. There are a number of sources for these rules, but they all ultimately are sanctioned by the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball. Examples of these rules are the Rule 5 draft (so-named for the ...
A few common rules most professional leagues have in common are that four balls are a base on balls, three strikes are a strikeout, and three outs end a half- inning. Baseball evolved out of bat-and-ball games in the mid-19th century, and its modern rules are based mainly on those first published in 1848. [1]