Baseball is known as America's pastime. One of the most popular sports in the country, baseball dates to the 1300s. The professional game began in 1871 as the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. As time went on, Major League Baseball was created and has become the top baseball league in the world. Knowing the basic rules and terms of baseball can help you follow the game.
Fans and students of baseball are continually devising new ways to analyze the game. There's a name for this science: sabermetrics, derived from SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research. Among the many statistical and a...
Often called the thinking man's game, baseball can be enjoyed on many levels. The basic terms such as strikeout, home run and stolen base are known to most spectators, but as you pay more attention to the scoreboards and announ...
The older the sport, the more complicated it can be, because the terms can date back centuries. The first organized baseball league in America formed in 1858. Since then, there have been many terms coined, some colorful, to des...
Cricket and baseball are closely related and share many similar elements. Baseball fans may find it difficult to understand cricket, however, simply because of the strange twist the sport puts on familiar baseball rules. Learni...
An earned run average, or ERA, is used to determine the average number of earned runs that are scored against the pitcher for every nine innings played. The National League began keeping official earned run average statistics i...
ERA represents how many runs a pitcher gives up during an entire game pitched (seven innings for high school baseball, nine for all other baseball leagues), so the lower the number the better. ERA standards have varied througho...
