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Baseball is a sport played between two teams of nine players. The object is to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the opposing team's pitcher with the bat, and running to a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square (known as the diamond).
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Players with over 600 career home runs:
Barry Bonds 762
Hank Aaron 755
Babe Ruth 714
Willie Mays 660
Sammy Sosa 609
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Most home runs in a season:
73 Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants, 2001)
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Players with over 2,000 runs batted in:
Hank Aaron 2,297
Babe Ruth 2,213
Cap Anson 2,076
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Most runs batted in in a season:
191 Hack Wilson ( Chicago Cubs, 1930 )
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Most hits in a season:
262 Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners. 2004)
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Highest career batting average:
0.367 Ty Cobb
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Most career strikeouts:
5,714 Nolan Ryan
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Most strikeouts in a game:
21 - Tom Cheney, 1962.
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The cartoon and movie character Yogi Bear is named after Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, a catcher and outfielder with the New York Yankees from 1946-1963, and manager and coach of the Yankees, the New York Mets and the Houston Astros.
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Joe DiMaggio was a powerful and elegant centre fielder and hitter. He played his entire career (1936-51) with the New York Yankees and was voted the most valuable player three times.In 1954 he married the film actress Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1920's, fans of the New York Yankees had good reason to take seats behind the right-field fence: that was the place where the left-handed Babe Ruth tended to hit home runs, and right field was also Ruth's fielding position. It seemed perverse to choose seats on the other side of the outfield. For that reason the term 'left-field' came to be used to refer to any sort of unconventional behaviour or thinking.
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Among the better-known people who have owned major-league baseball teams are:
chewing-gum maker William Wrigley (Chicago Cubs)
singing cowboy Gene Autry (LA/Cal./Anaheim Angels )
media mogul Ted Turner (Atlanta Braves)
tennis champion Pam Shriver (Baltimore Orioles)
ex-president George W. Bush (Texas Rangers).
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Jackie Robinson was one of the first African-American's to play in the major leagues, for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947-55). He was largely responsible for the acceptance of African-American athletics in American professional sport. Major League Baseball now celebrates 15th April, the anniversary of his breaking the colour bar, as Jackie Robinson Day.
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Lou Gehrig's record for the most number of consecutive major league games for the New York Yankees (2,130) stood for 56 years. Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the year 1939, a motor neurone disease that is now named after him.
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Grover Cleveland Alexander was one of the greatest right-handed pitchers in the history of the game. The story of his life was told in the film The Wedding Team (1952).
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'Shoeless' Joe Jackson is said to have earned his nickname after discarding his boots during a minor-league game because of blisters. He was one of the great outfielders, but he was banned from baseball after some of his White Sox team mates were found to have accepted money to lose the World Series in 1919, although it is doubtful whether Jackson was personally involved. Legend has it that when Jackson left the courthouse after the hearing, a young boy ran up to him and cried, 'Say it ain't so, Joe!'
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Roberto Clements, an outstanding outfielder with Pittsburgh Pirates, was killed in an air crash while on a relief mission to the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua in 1972.
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Softball is descended from baseball. The standard softball is not soft; in fact, it is harder than a baseball.
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