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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two nine-player teams who alternate batting and fielding. The batting team aims to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher and running around four bases, while the fielding team tries to get batters out through various means. Innings are composed of three outs for each team, and the team with the most runs after nine innings wins. Baseball evolved from older British games and developed into its modern form in North America in the late 19th century. Major League Baseball teams in the United States and Canada are divided into the American and National Leagues which each crown champions through postseason playoffs and the World Series.

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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two nine-player teams who alternate batting and fielding. The batting team aims to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher and running around four bases, while the fielding team tries to get batters out through various means. Innings are composed of three outs for each team, and the team with the most runs after nine innings wins. Baseball evolved from older British games and developed into its modern form in North America in the late 19th century. Major League Baseball teams in the United States and Canada are divided into the American and National Leagues which each crown champions through postseason playoffs and the World Series.

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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and
fielding.
The batting team attempts to score runs by hitting a ball that is thrown by the pitcher with a bat swung by the
batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate. A run
is scored when a player advances around the bases and returns to home plate.
Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs
by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later
attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates' turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means. The
teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for
both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and
the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no game clock, although
almost all games end in the ninth inning.
Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century. This
game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late 19th
century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in
North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.
In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the
National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central. The
major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. The top level of play is
similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the West League and East
League.

Origins
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.[1] Other old French games such as thque, la balle au bton, and la balle empoisonne also appear to
be related.[2] Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game
rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland. Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game
(2005), by David Block, suggests that the game originated in England; recently uncovered historical evidence
supports this position. Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each
other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and "tut-ball."[3] It has long
been believed that cricket also descended from such games, though evidence uncovered in early 2009 suggests
that cricket may have been imported to England from Flanders.[4]
The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John
Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut that shows a field set-up somewhat

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