and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

Caltech has athletic teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, men's soccer, swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, women's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo.

It was agreed that two games would be played on Harvard ’ s Jarvis baseball field in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 14 and 15, 1874: one to be played under Harvard rules, another under the stricter rugby regulations of McGill.

In addition to the traditional American team sports ( football, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey ), Dartmouth competes at the varsity level in many other sports including track and field, sailing, tennis, rowing, soccer, skiing, and lacrosse.

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

In high school, he played football and baseball and ran track and field.

The school offers a range of men's and women's varsity sports, including football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, and soccer.

* Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which heaven is symbolized by a baseball field.

Harwich is known for its excellent boys basketball, girls basketball, girls field hockey, softball and baseball teams.

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.

His success on the football field led to several football scholarship offers, which he turned down to pursue a career in professional baseball.

Students compete in football, basketball, soccer, women's swimming, diving, women's volleyball, baseball, women's lacrosse, field hockey, golf, cross country, track and field, and softball.

Most recently, James Madison University has used funds to create a new baseball and softball field complex by Memorial Hall.

City Island Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida — the baseball field that became the Dodgers ' de facto spring training site in 1947 — was renamed Jackie Robinson Ballpark in 1989.

When the National League's chief counsel, future Senator George Wharton Pepper referred to the activities of baseball players on the field as " labor ", Landis interrupted him: " As a result of 30 years of observation, I am shocked because you call playing baseball ' labor.

Men's sports include: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field.

The best-known instance of the parabola in the history of physics is the trajectory of a particle or body in motion under the influence of a uniform gravitational field without air resistance ( for instance, a baseball flying through the air, neglecting air friction ).

Off the field, Clemente was involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, often delivering baseball equipment and food to those in need.

Men compete at the varsity level in baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, indoor and outdoor track and field, lacrosse, rowing, soccer and tennis.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

-- Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball.

It was only about the size of a baseball ; ;

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.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

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's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

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.

Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.

Although the National Association held on for a few more seasons, it was no longer recognized as the premier organization for professional baseball.

He and his brother sold baseball gloves, and wearing one himself was good for business.

Spalding also founded the Baseball Guide, which at the time was the most widely-read baseball publication.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.

for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

:::" 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 ).

Pictures of Casey and the pitcher from the Disney animated adaptation are hanging on the walls, and a life-size statue of a baseball player identified as " Casey " stands just outside the restaurant.

This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts ( that did more than just increase the life of a product ) such as amplifier valves ( improved sound quality ), baseball bats ( greater sweet spot ), golf clubs ( greater sweet spot ), racing engines ( greater performance under stress ), firearms ( less warping after continuous shooting ), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose.

But it wasn't just baseball that saw new businesses and growth.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

Toronto was awarded an expansion team called the Blue Jays, but San Francisco baseball fans ' worries about losing their beloved Giants had not completely gone away just yet.

The team spent every day of the season in first place, just the ninth team to do so in baseball history.

Beginning in 1997, the Topps Baseball Card company retired the card # 7 in its base sets in tribute to Mantle, whose career was taking off just as Topps began producing baseball cards.

His first experience of semi-professional baseball came in 1895, when he was just 14 years old.

He also won the 1963,, and 1966 Cy Young Awards by unanimous votes, making him the first 3-time Cy Young winner in baseball history and the only one to win 3 times when the award was for all of baseball, not just one league.

It is currently held at the local baseball park just north of U. S. Highway 90 on the west side of Grand Bay.

The Hatters baseball team plays at Melching Field at Conrad Park, a 2, 500-seat ballpark located off campus just south of downtown DeLand.

He was born in Cass County, grew up in Auburn, operated a restaurant in Garrett after retiring from baseball and moved to Orland in 1959 where he lived until just before his death.

In 1912, city leaders attempted to acquire a baseball franchise in the Class D Blue Grass League ; the Cincinnati Reds, whose park was just five miles away across the Ohio River, nixed the move.

The playing field ( bounded by East 2nd Street, East 3rd Street, Madison Avenue and Scott Boulevard ) was tiny, believed to be smallest for any pro baseball park ever built: just 194 feet down the right-field line, 267 feet to dead center and 218 feet down the left-field line.

Organized Saturday afternoon activities, open swimming, day trips to museums and baseball games, youth theater, teen dances, and concerts are just some of the many activities.

Willow Fields, just south of Joe Grill, consists of a soccer field and a baseball field.

When the Newburgh Hummingbirds were kicked out of Delano-Hitch Stadium for non-payment of rent just two weeks into the 1946 season, the franchise shifted to a baseball diamond in Bradley Park, which hurriedly put up some makeshift stands.

* buying a TV just to destroy it with a baseball bat

Outside of Japan, it is often just referred to as " Japanese baseball.

) the bowlers end has usually a stone, or any similar object ( including sandals ), to act as stumps. Since hitting it directly with a ball is nearly impossible, the fielder can just have contact with the stone, while catching the ball in order to run out a batsman. Usually the contact is with legs ( like baseball ).