The squeeze play is said to have been invented on the baseball field at Yale by Dutch Carter and by George B.

The rise of baseball also helped squeeze out other sports such as cricket, which had been popular in Philadelphia prior to the rise of baseball.

During the 1905 season, Chesbro was involved in the first squeeze play in baseball.

Nine of the league's teams play in baseball parks and therefore face an early-season conflict in dates.

They try to play baseball the best they can.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Statistics play an important role in summarizing baseball performance and evaluating players in the sport.

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 ).

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers.

Both leagues are considered major leagues by many baseball researchers because of the perceived high caliber of play ( for a brief time anyway ) and the number of star players featured.

In his defense, some baseball historians have suggested that it was not customary for game-ending hits to be fully " run out ", it was only Evers's insistence on following the rules strictly that resulted in this unusual play.

Selig oversaw baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleague play, and the merging of the National and American leagues under the Office of the Commissioner.

His first major act was to institute the Wild Card and divisional playoff play, which has created much controversy amongst baseball fans.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

* Dorabase, a spin-off about robot cats who play on a baseball team.

The EMSBL ( East Meadow Strat-o-Matic Baseball League ), founded in 1972 started its 41st consecutive year of play in May 2012 and is believed to be the oldest continuously playing fantasy baseball league in the world.

* Grounded into double play, in baseball the act of making two outs during the same continuous playing action

He attracted national attention in 1934 when he refused to play baseball on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, even though the Tigers were in the middle of a pennant race and he was not in practice a religious Jew.

In baseball, a home run ( abbreviated HR ) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process.

There is also the " inside-the-park " home run, increasingly rare in modern baseball, where the batter reaches home safely while the baseball is in play on the field.

The UBC Hannover Tigers play in the second German Basketball Association and the Hannover Regents play in the third Bundesliga ( baseball ) division.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

* Almost all of interleague play in baseball occurs in this month, with 15 of the 18 interleague games occurring this month.

As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades.

Malmö also has teams that play first division handball HK Malmö, baseball, American football and Australian football.

Bradley Park once hosted a professional baseball team, the Walden Hummingbirds ( aka Keen Kutters ) of the Class D North Atlantic League.

The ' Henry Anderson Community Park ( aka, " The Hank ") contains multiple lighted baseball fields, basketball courts, and tennis courts and other recreational facilities.

* Brad Lesley, aka " Animal " ( 亜仁丸レスリー, born 11 September 1958 ) — Japanese / American baseball player.

It should also be noted that Ted Giannoulas, aka " The Famous Chicken " sports mascot, was born and raised in London, Ontario, and during the years 1965 to 1967 worked part-time at Labatt Park during baseball games changing the old manual scoreboard in right field for 25 cents a game.

* King Kelly, aka Michael Joseph " King " Kelly, baseball player

Lance Michael Parrish, aka " Big Wheel " ( born June 15, 1956 in Clairton, Pennsylvania ), is an American former professional baseball player.

Swampoodle Grounds aka Capitol Park ( II ) was the home of the Washington Nationals baseball team of the National League from 1886 to 1889.

* Deacon White, aka James " Deacon " White, ( 1847 – 1939 ), baseball star

The University of Mississippi ( aka " Ole Miss Rebels ") baseball team has gone 0-6 in NCAA Super Regional games at home after winning the first game in three different best-of-three series.

* Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, aka California Angels, an American baseball team

* The Raymond C. Pecor Jr .,( built 2010 ) named for Raymond Pecor who ran the company from 1976 to 2004, father of Trey Pecor ( aka Raymond Pecor III ), the company's current president .. ( Raymond Pecor is also the owner of the Vermont Lake Monsters, a minor league baseball team headquartered in Burlington.

Eighty-eight years later, in 2008, Dropkick Murphy leader Ken Casey joined forces with film producer and baseball historian Peter Nash ( aka Pete Nice ) to officially re-establish and re-open McGreevy ’ s 3rd Base Saloon at 911 Boylston St.

Mack was the son of a professional baseball player ( Cleveland Indians ' second baseman, Ray Mack, aka Raymond James Mack Raymond James Mlckovsky )

Joe W. Davis Stadium ( aka " The Joe ") was built in 1985 in Huntsville, Alabama, United States to host the Southern League Huntsville Stars minor league baseball team.

His other contributions to baseball research include the SABR style manual, an article on the fluctuating effectiveness ( aka " streakiness ") of major league pitchers, and the creation of a ' DICE ' ( Defense-Independent Component ERA ).