baseball, n.All

K denotes 'strikeout' because 'S' was being used to denote a sacrifice

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game while football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

An MLB game generally uses around 100 balls

Baseball is more complex than one would think --- there are nine different ways to reach first base

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch tv screen hangs on the wall.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

A curveball is able to break up to 17 inches

Kickball is referred to as "soccer-baseball" in some parts of Canada

Baseball is a glocal sport. Rather than being fully integrated into the sporting globalization paradigm, in the case of baseball, the global becomes localized such that it becomes inherently unique in each culture where it is played.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Baseball is played in more than 100 countries

Before 1859, umpires would sit behind home plate in a rocking chair

Baseball is a game where they play organs. Rugby is a game where they donate organs.

Baseball's longest MLB game: 26 innings

Baseball is a matter of fathers and sons, memory and conversation.

Baseball is a pastoralism and is tied to symbols of youth, nostalgia, springtime, harmony, simplicity.