Baseball is a fascinating game and everyone can start playing it. In this article we are telling you something about history of the game its rules and basic strategies.

[sc name="article-ad"]Baseball is the National American Game. But it has got a worldwide popularity. This kind of sport is relative young. The first baseball tournament was held in 1820 in New York. That is why the home of baseball is the USA. Since 1857 the goal of the game was to score 21 points (to run 21 times). In 1876 the National Baseball League was created. Later in 1904 in the USA “World Series” was held. It is the most important baseball competition among teams of each league.

But in the world there are millions of baseball players. It is popular in such countries as Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia, Japan, Korea and other countries. At this moment baseball is played in more than 120 countries.

In different counties there were the games, which were like baseball. For example cricket, pesapolo in Finland, oina in Romania and lapta in Russia. In these games there also two opposing teams. Each of them has 9 or 10 players. Game is played with a ball and bat. The main goal of the game is to get the maximum goals.

The basis of baseball is the confrontation of pitcher and hitter.

Baseball is the great sport. There are some facts that proof it. High-class pitchers can throw the ball with speed 99,4 mph. Softball’ pitchers can achieve the speed of the ball 73,3 mph. The size of baseball is 9 inch, and the size of softball is 12 inch. Baseball players play the game on the field from grass and hard ground. The field is called “diamond, because field’s inside is square-shaped and like diamond!

There are many baseball stars. They made and make baseball more popular. But in the history of baseball there was the name of Japanese Sadaharu Oh. For his long carrier (1959 – 1980) he returned 868 “home-runs”. He established record in the history of baseball.

How you see, baseball is popular in the whole world. So, the famous American writer Gerald Earley said that “… there are only three things in which America will be known during the time, from which we study this civilization, they are the Constitution, jazz and baseball”. And we can agree to his words, because baseball is the favorite game not only in the United States but also among people of different nationalities and interests.