baseball

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 See also 2 Czech 2.1 Noun 3 Finnish 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Declension 4 Italian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Synonyms

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Wikipedia

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base + ball

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[edit] Noun

baseball (plural baseballs)

1. A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
   • 1744, John Newbery, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

     Base-Ball.

     THE Ball once struck off,

     Away flies the Boy

     To the next destin'd Post,

     And then Home with Joy,

     Moral.

     Thus Seamen; for Lucre

     Fly over the Main,

     But, with Pleasure transported

     Return back again.

   • 1755, William Bray, Diary of William Bray

     "Easter Monday 31 March 1755

     "Went to Stoke Ch. This morning. After Dinner Went to Miss Jeale's to play at Base Ball with her, the 3 Miss Whiteheads, Miss Billinghurst, Miss Molly Flutter, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Ford & H. Parsons & Jelly. Drank Tea and stayed till 8."

   • 1797-1798, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

     It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.

2. The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
3. A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

[edit] Derived terms

• baseball bat
• baseball cap
• baseball diamond
• baseballer
• baseball game
• baseballist
• baseball player
• baseball stadium
• indoor baseball

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[edit] See also

• rounders
• softball
• wiffleball

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Noun

baseball m.

1. baseball (game)

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[edit] Finnish

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baseball

1. baseball

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Declension of baseball (type risti) singular plural nominative baseball baseballit genitive baseballin baseballien partitive baseballia baseballeja accusative baseball baseballin baseballit inessive baseballissa baseballeissa elative baseballista baseballeista illative baseballiin baseballeihin adessive baseballilla baseballeilla ablative baseballilta baseballeilta allative baseballille baseballeille essive baseballina baseballeina translative baseballiksi baseballeiksi instructive – baseballein abessive baseballitta baseballeitta comitative – baseballeineen

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[edit] Italian

Wikipedia ^it

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English

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baseball m. inv.

1. (sports) baseball

[edit] Synonyms

• pallabase (rare)