Baseball
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
<P>Note to subbie - There is already an approved entry on baseball but it's on the list of guide entries that need rewriting.
<P>Baseball is the American national pasttime.<FOOTNOTE>This is how it's referred to - in fact football, basketball, and hockey all have more American fans.</FOOTNOTE> It's a sport loosely based on the British game Cricket, but obviously far superior. The object of the game is to score more runs than the opposing team. Sound simple? Get ready - it's more rocket science than simple.<FOOTNOTE>PArticularly the infield fly rule, which we won't get into.</FOOTNOTE></P>
<HEADER>How to Play></HEADER>
<P>Two teams play each other, on a baseball field. The field is made up of a ninety foot squar, or diamond as it is known. At three of the corners, one foot quare bases are placed, and at a fourth a home plate, which is a pentagon. One vertex on the pentagon lines up exactly with the sides of the square, or "base lines".</P>
<P>The wo sides of the diamon that do not touch home plate are not borders of the field; beyond them is more grass, known as the outfield. The two base lines that do touch home plate extend to form the borders of the infield and outfield, and are known as foul lines.</P>
<P>There's also a funny looking mound in the middle of the infield, and at the top of it, sixty feet and six inches from the back vertex of home plate, is a small white piece of rubber. This is the pitcher's mound, which becomes important later.</P>
computer's gone mad, more later
<P>Baseball is the American national pasttime.<FOOTNOTE>This is how it's referred to - in fact football, basketball, and hockey all have more American fans.</FOOTNOTE> It's a sport loosely based on the British game Cricket, but obviously far superior. The object of the game is to score more runs than the opposing team. Sound simple? Get ready - it's more rocket science than simple.<FOOTNOTE>PArticularly the infield fly rule, which we won't get into.</FOOTNOTE></P>
<HEADER>How to Play></HEADER>
<P>Two teams play each other, on a baseball field. The field is made up of a ninety foot squar, or diamond as it is known. At three of the corners, one foot quare bases are placed, and at a fourth a home plate, which is a pentagon. One vertex on the pentagon lines up exactly with the sides of the square, or "base lines".</P>
<P>The wo sides of the diamon that do not touch home plate are not borders of the field; beyond them is more grass, known as the outfield. The two base lines that do touch home plate extend to form the borders of the infield and outfield, and are known as foul lines.</P>
<P>There's also a funny looking mound in the middle of the infield, and at the top of it, sixty feet and six inches from the back vertex of home plate, is a small white piece of rubber. This is the pitcher's mound, which becomes important later.</P>
computer's gone mad, more later
