The sacrifice fly is one of two instances in baseball where a batter is not charged with a time at bat after putting a ball in play ; the other is the sacrifice hit ( also known as a sacrifice bunt ).

Batters have not been charged with a time at-bat for a sacrifice hit since 1893, but baseball has changed the sacrifice fly rule multiple times.

( The present-day baseball sacrifice fly rule was not in effect in 1941 ; had it been, Williams would have hit. 416.

In baseball, the squeeze play ( aka squeeze bunt ) is a maneuver consisting of a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third base.

Recently, teams following the " Moneyball " school of baseball thought ( such as the Oakland Athletics, the Boston Red Sox, and the 2004-2005 Los Angeles Dodgers ) have shown the tendency to shun the sacrifice bunt almost entirely.

In baseball, a sacrifice bunt ( also called a sacrifice hit ) is a batter's act of deliberately bunting the ball in a manner that allows a runner on base to advance to another base.

" Weaver eschewed the use of so-called " inside baseball " tactics such as the stolen base, the hit and run, or the sacrifice bunt, preferring a patient approach (" waiting for the home run "), saying " If you play for one run, that's all you'll get " and " On offense, your most precious possessions are your 27 outs ".

Schroeder also joined Linus in dressing down the girls ( Lucy, Patty, Violet and Frieda ) and Snoopy in Charlie Brown's All-Stars, when it was discovered Charlie Brown wouldn't sacrifice the girls and Snoopy just to get uniforms for the baseball team.

He also had the fourth most sacrifice flies in the league ( 11 ), and was tenth in singles ( 117 ) and now he's a baseball coach for American Senior High School.

An avid and expert fly fisherman and deep-sea fisherman, he spent many summers after baseball fishing the Miramichi River, in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada.

It also has a large playground and plenty of open fields to play soccer, baseball or even fly a kite.

* Shagging ( baseball ), to catch fly balls in baseball outside of a game

Because the roof is very nearly the same color as a baseball, and transmits light, the Metrodome had a far higher error incidence than a normal stadium during day games, so instead of losing a fly ball in the sun, as is common for non-roofed stadiums, fly balls could easily get lost in the ceiling.

Coleman learned to fly in a Nieuport Type 82 biplane, with " a steering system that consisted of a vertical stick the thickness of a baseball bat in front of the pilot and a rudder bar under the pilot's feet.

In baseball statistics, a putout ( denoted by PO or fly out when appropriate ) is given to a defensive player who records an out by one of the following methods:

The other side featured the portrait of a player within a baseball diamond in the center, and in opposite corners a picture of a baseball together with the event for that card, such as " fly out " or " single ".

The infield fly rule is a rule in baseball intended to prevent infielders from intentionally dropping pop-ups in order to turn double plays ( or triple plays ).

Tarpaulins have multiple uses, including as shelter from the elements, i. e., wind, rain, or sunlight, a ground sheet or a fly in camping, a drop sheet for painting, for protecting the infield of a baseball field, and for protecting objects, such as unenclosed road or rail goods carrying vehicles or wood piles.

In baseball statistics, ground ball fly ball ratio ( denoted by G / F ), also known as ground outs per fly outs / air outs ( denoted by GO / AO ), is a measure of:

He also pursued his love of fly fishing, and teamed and toured with baseball great Ted Williams in fly fishing promotions.

After only 26 games and a. 264 batting average on a Casey Stengel-led team known as the Daffy Dodgers for their often inept play ( Stengel was fired at season ’ s end ), the onetime Boy Wonder turned Silver Fox at the age of 30 for his prematurely graying hair abruptly retired from baseball following a collision with infielder Jimmy Jordan while going for a routine pop fly.

In baseball, a slow, damp outfield is usually considered an advantage for the hitter, in as much as a batted ball will not travel as quickly to an outfielder in the traditional deep position for fly balls, and thus may permit additional advance by batters and other runners on the basepaths.

Generally a tighter-wound baseball will leave the bat faster, and fly farther.

In baseball, power hitting can produce runs quickly and frequently in many situations, as well as force pitching changes and other fielding moves ; but it can also result ( because of the great difficulty of driving a ball off a cylindrical bat ) in a great many strike outs, fly outs, and ground outs.

In baseball, defense-independent pitching statistics ( DIPS ) claim to measure a pitcher's effectiveness based only on plays that do not involve fielders: home runs allowed, strikeouts, hit batters, walks, and, more recently, fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and ( to much a lesser extent ) line drive percentage.

Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.

The only area in which American boys hold their own is the baseball throw.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Liston is Bill Liston, baseball writer for the Boston Traveler, who quoted Jensen as saying:

Both, of course, were remarkable feats and further embossed the fact that baseball rightfully is the national pastime.

It is an irritable rule that does baseball more harm than good, especially at the minor league level.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

Bill Veeck's health is back to the dynamo stage, but his medics insist he rest for several more months before getting back into the baseball swim.

Although both concede they would like to hit 60, they stick primarily to the baseball player's standard quote: `` The important thing is to win the pennant ''.

Neither Mantle nor Maris is totally devoted to baseball above all else.

`` What the hell do you think baseball is??

What the hell do you think baseball is??

Doubleday is often mistakenly credited with inventing baseball, although he never made such a claim, and there is no evidence to support it.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

Although Doubleday achieved minor fame as a competent combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, he is more widely remembered as the supposed inventor of the game of baseball, in Elihu Phinney's cow pasture in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

Doubleday Field is a minor league baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame.

thumbAmerica's National Game is a book by Albert Spalding, published in 1911 detailing the early history of the sport of baseball.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

First indoor baseball game is played.

* 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Spalding's. 796 career winning percentage ( from an era when teams played about once or twice a week ) is the highest ever achieved by a baseball pitcher.

Spalding's store grew rapidly over the next 25 years, with 14 stores by 1901, expanded from retail into manufacturing baseball equipment and is still a going concern.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.