Introduction:
Baseball is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of nine players. the aim to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond.
Players:
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 can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit.
Two Waseda University baseball players in 1921.
- The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs .
- one turns at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game.
- the team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Baseball in Japan:
Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan. It was introduced to japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, who taught at the Kaisei School in Tokyo.
Hiroshi Hiraoka, an engineering student who was exposed to baseball during a period of study in the United States. introduced the game to his co-workers at japan's national railways in upon his returns in 1878.
(Bottom) 1881 Shinbashi Athletic Club. Mr. Hiraoka is in the middle of the center line.
The first baseball
team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878.
Baseball has been a popular sport ever since. It is called 野球 (やきゅう; yakyū) in Japanese, combining the characters for field and ball
Highlights about baseball in japan:
- In 1886 that the sport began to take hold in Japanese culture.
- The professional baseball association is called Nippon Professional Baseball.
- Japan has two leagues, the Central and pacific leagues each consist of six teams.
- Pro baseball season is eight months long with games beginning in April and the Championship held in October.
- Teams play 144 games, as compared to the 162 games of the American major league teams.
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