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  2. Variations of baseball - Wikipedia

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    The game features a number of significant differences to baseball: it is not possible to hit out-of-the-park home runs, as these are considered foul balls, and batters do not have to run on fair contact, being allowed three chances to hit the ball (regardless of the result of each hit) before being forced. [63]

  3. List of ball games - Wikipedia

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    Net and wall games, such as volleyball. Racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. Throwing sports, such as dodgeball and bocce. Cue sports, such as pool and snooker. Target sports, such as golf and bowling. Hand and ball-striking games, such as various handball codes, rebound handball, and four square.

  4. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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    This is a different meaning of "aim" from the situation in which a pitcher aims a pitch at a batter in an effort to hit him. ... it is said to be "a brand new ball game".

  5. Pool (cue sports) - Wikipedia

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    The most commonly played pool game is eight-ball, which appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is often thought of as synonymous with "pool". The game has numerous variations, mostly regional. It is the second most played professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool. [3]

  6. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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    Billiard balls vary from game to game, and area to area, in size, design and number. Though the dominant material in the making of quality balls was ivory until the late 1800s (with clay and wood being used for cheaper sets), there was a need to find a substitute for it, not only due to elephant endangerment, but also because of the high cost of the balls.

  7. Bat-and-ball games - Wikipedia

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    Composite rules baseball–cricket – a hybrid bat-and-ball games combining elements of baseball and cricket, played by two teams of 12 players with the 9 inches (230 mm) diameter baseball on the oval-shaped field about 220 yards (200 m) long by 176 yards (161 m) wide, at the center of which is a baseball field about 92 feet (28 m) apart with ...

  8. Baseball - Wikipedia

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    Saves: games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either (a) the lead was three runs or less when the pitcher entered the game; (b) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck; or (c) the pitcher pitched three or more innings

  9. Outline of basketball - Wikipedia

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    Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...