It will forever be a baseball mystery how a team will suddenly start hitting after a distressing slump.

** Aberdeen IronBirds, baseball team

The Auburn Doubledays are a minor league baseball team based in Doubleday's hometown of Auburn, New York.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

In 2001, the team was led by two of the most dominant pitchers in all of baseball: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

* Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

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

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

* Columbia Blowfish, baseball team

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States.

This period included eighteen consecutive winning seasons ( 1968 – 1985 ) -- an unprecedented run of success that saw the Orioles become the envy of the league, and the winningest team in baseball.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

It has become a symbol of the Mets baseball team, recognized throughout the league as an iconic feature of the Mets ' stadiums.

* Orix Buffaloes, a Japanese professional baseball team

* Kintetsu Buffaloes, a former Japanese professional baseball team

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

* Edmonton Capitals, a baseball team

* Columbus Clippers, International League minor league baseball team

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.

Whatever the reasons, not in 30 years has a single season produced such thunderous assaults upon the bureau of baseball records, home-run division.

Historically, the university has shown great athletic dominance in men's, women's, and mixed archery ; men's, women's, and mixed badminton ; women's golf ; women's swimming and diving ; and baseball.

*" 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.

Autumn also has strong ties to post-season baseball, with the autumnal equinox occurring with about a week left in the regular season, depending on scheduling.

Since the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and normally players act individually rather than performing in clusters, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and statistics.

* In Futurama, the future equivalent of baseball ( blernsball ) has Leela as the first female pitcher.

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.

Although the transformation was not instantaneous, baseball has since become fully integrated.

The name has a rich history in Baltimore, having been used by Baltimore baseball teams since the late 19th century.

This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

" Selig has pledged on numerous occasions to rid baseball of performance enhancing drugs, and has overseen and instituted many rule changes and penalties to that end.

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

Selig has been widely criticized for not taking an active enough role to stem the tide of steroid use in baseball until it had blossomed into a debilitating problem for the industry.

Costas has teamed with Isiah Thomas and Doug Collins for NBA telecasts ( from 1997 – 2000 ) and Sal Bando ( 1982 ), Tony Kubek ( from 1983 – 1989 ), Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker ( from 1994 – 2000 ) for baseball telecasts.

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 also has a fair amount of baseball jargon that can pose challenges for the uninitiated.

:::" 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 ).

John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.

The city has a Class A minor league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits.