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  Baseball is played with a hard ball of about 23 cm circumference and a wooden or Aluminium bat not wider than 7cm in diameter and less than 107cm in length. Play is divided into nine periods of play, called innings. The team that scores the most runs by the end of the ninth inning wins the game. Play starts when a player called the pitcher throws a ball toward the batter, a player on the opposing team. The batter tries to hit the ball into the baseball field. Players score runs by hitting the ball and running around a series of bases before a player in the field can put them out. Batters and runners can be put out in a variety of ways .... read on  (from MLB Schedule)  


Baseball, The Game  History  Know the game  Improve your game  Forums

Baseball History - Know the background

 Contact our Baseball History Librarian Greg from Probaseball Archive  if you need help with this section
                     or for 19th Century history contact Eric of 19th Century Baseball

19th Century Baseball  Includes photos, illustrations, diagrams and information on the origins of baseball, and the history of the field, equipment, rules, leagues, players and legacy. Links to the vintage baseball teams of today. Sources
Pro Baseball Archive Newspaper articles about professional baseball tell the story of America's pastime as it happened and provides first-hand accounts of some of the most legendary figures in American sports history. Starting with Abner Doubleday's invention of the game in 1839, the Pro Baseball Archive provides historic newspaper articles and stories.
Baseball Archive - early History, Team History, Post-Season, All-Star Game, League History, Stats (Complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871-2003. Plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, post-season data, and more)
Baseball Archive,The Vault  from The Sporting News. Histories of major events,  Scrapbook, Features and an Almanac
 Baseball Library   - the stories behind the stats; players, teams, chronology, this day in history, Faq
Baseball History  from MLB-players.com
Baseball Reliquary - The Baseball Reliquary is dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the historical development of baseball and its interaction with American culture.
By Popular Demand "Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights"; a superb Library of Congress collection that tells Jackie Robinson's story and the history of baseball in general
Baseball Bat History 
    Evolution of the baseball bat
Catchers Equipment history
Graphical History of Baseball  A graphical history of baseball -  batting  pitching fielding stats expressed in graphical form
Historic Baseball The history of baseball with profiles of players and teams
Images and Links to Baseball History
Legends of the Game - Profiles of players from the Deadball Era.
National Baseball Hall of Fame - The official site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
NetShrine - a gallery of our national pastime's best
Original Baseball Research  directory from Clifford Bau - articles by SABR researchers
Origins of Baseball from The Baseball Page;- extensive pages of history, dedicated to players, teams of the post season, All-Star game and Hall of Fame.
Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society  The official web site of Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society where you will find valuable information about the Philadelphia Athletics and baseball in Philadelphia

 The Pinstripe Press features extensive research and essays (on the New York Yankees and the history of major league baseball)
Retrosheet  Complete records of all past World Series,  Post Season, All Star Games, including box scores and play by play for all.  Past regular season boxscores back to 63 and play by plays up to the 93 season. Stats and career records of all players, teams and seasons, and the box scores of  every game played of every active Major Leaguer.
SABR Society for American Baseball Research: the premier source for fans interested in becoming researchers or baseball historians. 
SABR UK UK branch of the Society for American Baseball Research on a wide variety of topics including the history of baseball in Britain and the origins of the game.
This Date in Baseball History Find out what happened on this date in baseball history
Vintage Baseball Association The VBBA promotes the authentic playing of 19th and early 20th century baseball around the country.

Players of the past
Babe Ruth (1895-1948), American professional baseball player, one of the most gifted and popular players in the history of baseball.
Ty Cobb The Georgia Peach. Life details
Shoeless Jackson

About Baseball - Know the game

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Base Ball Glossaries - what those terms mean. Check out :
         Baseball Terms from NoCryingBaseball  Glossary from PBS,
         Terminology from Little League, Storm/glossary
 
Rules  from MLB.com
Keeping Score and Baseball Scorecard Tutorial - all you need to record everything going on!
Baseball Basics from MLS Schedule; the game, field, play, positions etc
Field Dimensions
Baseball field Layout
 

Improve your Game - through online coaching advice
 

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  Baseball Video 1000's of baseball videos of some of the best baseball games and baseball plays. Download Free!
All About Baseball improve on your skills with tips and advice
Amateur Baseball Umpire basic and advanced mechanics (articles on the basics), signs and signals, fictitious letters, training and evaluation clinic.
  
 

Baseball Science 

  The science of Baseball opportunities to understand some of the science behind your game eg reaction time
Maths and Baseball science uses concepts and tips to help improve your game
Batspeed comprehensive study of the baseball swing; breaks the rotational batting mechanics swing down into its frame-by-frame parts in order to demonstrate the essential core mechanics
Corect Pitching mechanics for  throwing strikes consistently
Mechanics of a baseball swing "The mechanics of hitting a baseball are relatively simple, and can be broken down into three distinct parts:" ........
BatSpeed online study of the baseball swing.

Baseball Playing tips from the Texas Sharks -techniques, advice, tips, drills & links to help make you a better baseball player
* Baseball Skills Clinic  from WebBall; a very comprehensive site covering all aspects of the sport, from team to individual playing skills, well animated and explained.
* Coaching Baseball from QC Baseball; Don Edlin, "devoted to providing thought provoking and valuable information for parents, coaches and players." It covers coaching, rules, instruction, drills, coaching tools, coaching philosophy in a very comprehensive way.
 Baseball Equipment
   MLB Rules on equipment from MLB.com. Rules 1.05 through 1.17
   Baseball Equipment basic info from Thinkquest; how it has changed over the years; manufacture
   Sports Memorabilia Museum of baseball equipment
 First base  explains the scientific principles behind the game and offers valuable playing tips
Hit2Win "If you really want to hit better than you ever have, you are going to have to practice more than you ever have!"; free coaching and training info eg  6 hitting drills
How to Play on-Line Baseball Playing/Coaching Tips: 
Learn the skills 
Learning from Baseball - samples of Baseball-related lessons from around the Web
Philosophy from Boys of Baseball - stay balanced!
  Coaching Philosophy; what kids want; parenting
Pitching Instruction Program: become a better pitcher:- increase arm strength, velocity/speed, skills, accuracy, stamina, and endurance.
  Pitching lessons  from Webball
Girls Fastpitch Windmill Pitching Tips, drills, photos and information necessary for windmill pitching. Site includes troubleshooting, mental aspects of pitching, ball movement, etc.
Skills Clinic   from Junior baseball, America's Youth Baseball Magazine;
Web Ball Baseball Skills Clinic covering each position of play with - mechanics, practice group drills, special situation; Ask the Coach and Nose 2 Nose  covering key issues.
Youth Baseball Coaching and Instruction links  from the LookSmart team
Healthopedia - a medical and health consumer information resource with useful information on  Nutition,

Baseball Forums - share your knowledge or feelings about baseball

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AardvarkSport Baseball Forum
Addicts Baseball Forum  history, fantasy, beginners.... anything on baseball
Baseball-Link Forums general, fantasy, hot or cold, trade talks, survivor baseball challenge
CBS Sportsline MLB  and College Message boards
Msn Baseball Forum
Sports Bleachers covers softpitch, fastpitch, baseball and other sports
 Sports central Message Board
Syracuse Baseball Forums High School , College and MLB
Vintage Baseball a card forum, but with opportunities to discuss wider items.
Women's Baseball Forum general, tournaments, clinic....
World Sports Pub - Baseball Forum

News

International Baseball

Baseball Stats and Analysis                Triple Crown  Box Scores

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Understanding Baseball Stats
How to read Baseball stats "Baseball box scores are now more than just runs, hits, and errors. There are numerous abbreviations that tell you everything about the game...if you know what they all mean"... read on....
Scorekeeping abbreviations also in a more comprehensive downloadable pdf format

     Triple Crown Earned either by a Batter who in the season leads in home runs, 'runs batted in' and batting average    or by a Bowler who leads in 'earned run average', wins and strikeouts. For more details see Wikipedia with all the winners  
        Baseball Almanac Triple Crown Wnners in the different Leagues
  Baseball Almanac   pictures, news, results, together with more than 2100 pages of baseball awards, records, stats, feats, quotes and literally a book full of baseball history.
Baseball All-time Stats from CNN Sports Illustrated; American League, National League, American Association, Federal League, Players League, Union Association; player stats
Baseball Analysis - High Boskage House; analyzing baseball statistics to extract deep and powerful measures showing what batters, pitchers, and teams are really doing toward scoring and giving up runs and--the bottom line--winning games; team and player performance;
    Baseball Analysis Theory  Baseball Stats definitions
Baseball Archive records, feats, stats/archive, off-the field stats, sabermatics, awards, minor leaguees, other leagues.
Baseball Box Scores
   Baseball Boxscores 2 categories with >500 historical Boxscores or request a boxscore.
   Retrosheet  founded in 1989 for the purpose of computerizing play-by-play
   accounts of as many pre-1984 major league games as possible
  Boxscores 1959 - upwards  in booklet form
Baseball Essay  on Baseball Theory by Joe Di Pietro
Baseball Junkie links to current articles on baseball, weblogs,
Baseball Prospectus -ezine with stats, glossary, articles, with game and player stats, and Series analysis
Baseball-Reference Major League stats and information- an amazing amount of stats covering players, teams, leagues managers etc through the years
Baseball Prospectus Stats
B Ballsports  downloadable baseball stats database from 1871-2003
Major League baseball stats every season since 1876
MLB  Historical Player stats
Retrosheet The best source for past World Series & Post Season games, with an account of all games ever played which includes the following information; The years, the teams and their complete rosters and regular season schedules and results, standings, yearly leaders, the complete record, box score, and play by play of every World Series and Post Season game Played.
Stathead  more stats focusing on VORP performance data 
Stat head Library "The Internet's best and most complete online library of baseball research, research, and commentary. This is the home page for discussions of baseball engineering and modelling, with an explicit focus on making better strategic and tactical decisions for a baseball team"

Baseball Players

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  Player Search  from MLB.com; by first or last name, position...
Major League Baseball Players Alphabetical, from Baseball Almanac
MLB players alphabetical from ESPN
Open Source Sports Directory tracking athletes with career Time in Minor and independent Pro Sports that you help create. Players in baseball, hockey, basketball and football from 1900 to the present. Editable, any user can add or amend any player bio, or comment in our discussion pages.
 
   Frank Robinson bio stats; Did You Know... that Frank Robinson's high school teams boasted great talent - he played baseball with future major leaguers Curt Flood and Vada Pinson and basketball with NBA Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell?
 
  Nicknames   'Americans Favourite Pastime'
    Wikepedia covers player, teams, stadia, special features and more...
Espn rank the best 10 with 'honourable mentions'
Berman's Baseball Nicknames listed alphabetically by Surname
One Hundred Baseball Nicknames from Baseball Guru
Baseball Nicknames for players. teams, mascots etc
Nicknames and lingo used in Baseball

 

American Baseball
  - home of the Sport

MLB  College Baseball
 General Information, Amateur Baseball   Little League Minor League 
Vintage Baseball Women's Baseball,  Youth Baseball 
Baseball by District

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   American Baseball  by District  (a new section for this page, still developing)

Michigan
  Michigan Baseball Clubs  
Washington  
  Baseball In Washington history, news, nationals
Washington Baseball Club dedicated to returning the National Pastime to the Nation's Capital.
Seattle Mariners The official site of the Seattle Mariners professional baseball team
Mariners The official site of the  farm team or minor league baseball team, where the Mariners train their players and pick from to fill their teams needs.
Washington's Women's Baseball Association   History, teams, schedules, news, links, forums
University of Washington Baseball  official site. Roster, news, results etc
 

Tickets for US Baseball
World Series Tickets 

Regional and National  Country specific information about baseball
see also   Global and  Regional servers covering multi-sports
Africa,  Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe (UK) , Japan, New Zealand, Developments
 

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       Asia    
Baseball Federation of Asia contacts and member countries, but may be out of date
Asian Baseball Committee history and goals
Asian Baseball Championships from Wikipedia - history of winners
 
     Africa    
 
  Zimbabwe Baseball and Softball association  contact details from NCAA
    or check with the IBF
Developing the sport in Zimbabwe with help from Texans
   Australia #
A variation of rounders and "Knickerbockers rules"  baseball existed in the Carlton Gardens where the Royal Historical Society of Victoria currently stands, before the first recorded Australian baseball game  played there on February 21, 1857.  The first occurrence of professional American players competing against Australian players actually occurred in 1888, when the Chicago White Stockings (predecessors of  the Chicago Cubs) played a 3 inning match against the Melbourne Baseball Club, a group of cricketers who had been playing baseball as well. For more information on the development of the game in Australia see Australian Baseball History #or ask or historian Greg.
 

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  Australian Baseball Federation  representing the 7 state organisations -  ACTBA, NSWBL, NTBL, QLD, SABL, VBA  and BWA -  news, major events, history, archives, Olympics etc
Australian Baseball Directory covering clubs and organisations, tuition, news and information, equipment suppliers
Australian Baseball Links  Australian clubs by state, National, including youth national teams.
History of Australian Baseball #  "Australians first saw the game in 1856 when American goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, played on their rest days.  ....."
 
     Canada  

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  Canada Baseball  senior and Junior National Teams, the Championships (Pee-Wee, Bantam, Midget, Junior and Senior), Canada Cup, Honda Hit-Run-Throw # competition for kids 13 and under across Canada to show off their baseball skills
Grand Forks International  the largest Invitational Baseball Tournament in Canada;
 MLB Canada from TSN
    MLB from a Canadian perspective 
 Slam Baseball American League and National League coverage with scores, recaps, boxes, leaders; Daily Stats
The Toronto Bluejays  official site 
Women's Baseball Forum - a place to chat and discuss Women's Baseball
Edmonton International Baseball Association "Amateur Baseball's Committed Partner"; 2008 World Junior AAA Baseball Championships; news, awards.
  
  Europe   Czech, Italy, Russia, Finland, UK, Irish

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  European Baseball Federation over 35 member countries, established since 1953; rules, tournaments (European championships, European cups and supercup), news, links to 21 member websites
European Baseball Connection "I want to play or coach for a European  team" check out the opportunities on this site.
European Championship baseball  World Championship qualifying tournament. Wikipedia
European Baseball Links by country
Czech Baseball asociation
Italy Serie A1 and A2 information; European Championships; forums, articles
Russia  leagues information, news
 Finland.  Pesis
UK
UK British Baseball Federation Wikipedia coverage
British Baseball official website; results news, calendar for Northern and Southern Conference, National League, tournaments etc; "how do I"?, covering coaching and development, basic facts and rules, scoring and umpiring etc
Links to UK Baseball Sites from Netfit.
UK Baseball discussion Board - it needs someone to get things going, so send in your discussion points.
UK Baseball Bulletin Board has some topics covering the wider aspects of baseball
Irish Baseball and Softball  federation home page
Baseball Ireland  for the National Team, adult and youth baseball, special events, history, rules and links
 
  Japan  

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  Japan Pro Baseball from the Mainichi Daily News; Pacific and Central League live scores, standings
Japan Baseball Daily - a daily Japanese baseball news site that also has a boatload of stats and some useful articles. It has an extensive links section and daily listings for Japanese baseball webcasts.
 
  New Zealand    
  New Zealand Softball official site; teams, fixture list, tournaments etc
Auckland Little League Baseball leading to international matches for young players
 
   Developments in other countries
  Taking Baseball to Africa Several Japanese pioneers are fostering international exchange with African countries through the medium of baseball.
     
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