14 Facts About Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth inning.

Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century.

The World Baseball Classic, organized by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, is the major international competition of the sport and attracts the top national teams from around the world.

Baseball game is played between two teams, each usually composed of nine players, that take turns playing offense and defense (pitching and fielding).

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The Confederation Europeene de Baseball, founded in 1953, organizes a number of competitions between clubs from different countries.

MLB initiated the World Baseball Classic, scheduled to precede its season, partly as a replacement, high-profile international tournament.

Baseball has certain attributes that set it apart from the other popular team sports in the countries where it has a following.

In 2004, Major League Baseball declared that its goal was an average game of 2:45.

In 2008, Nippon Professional Baseball took steps aimed at shortening games by 12 minutes from the preceding decade's average of 3:18.

Baseball has an important place in other national cultures as well: Scholar Peter Bjarkman describes "how deeply the sport is ingrained in the history and culture of a nation such as Cuba, [and] how thoroughly it was radically reshaped and nativized in Japan.

Baseball has had a broad impact on popular culture, both in the United States and elsewhere.

Baseball has provided thematic material for hits on both stage—the Adler–Ross musical Damn Yankees—and record—George J Gaskin's "Slide, Kelly, Slide", Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson", and John Fogerty's "Centerfield".

Baseball cards were introduced in the late 19th century as trade cards.