Baseball
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine
players who take turns batting and fielding.
The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to
trace with precision. A French manuscript from 1344 contains an
illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with
similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la
balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonnée also appear to be related.
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine
players who take turns batting and fielding.
The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to
trace with precision. A French manuscript from 1344 contains an
illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with
similarities to baseball. Other old French games such as thèque, la
balle au bâton, and la balle empoisonnée also appear to be related.
