I need to know more about baseball can you help me?
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Here are some basics:\nBaseball is a game between two teams of nine players each, under direction of a manager, played on an enclosed field, under jurisdiction of one or more umpires.\n* 9 innings, each inning has a top & bottom with 3 outs each, the visiting team is first at bat.\n* 4 bases the one where the catcher stands is called home. Counter-clockwise from home there are 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.\n* each pitch can count as a ball, strike, foul ball, hit, homerun. \n   -3 strikes=1 out\n   -4 balls = player at bat walks to first base, \n   -1 foul ball = 1 strike if strike count is less than 3. Otherwise it doesn't count. There are "foul lines" marked on the ground, if the ball lands outside of the territory marked by these lines the hit is considered a foul ball. If a foul ball is catched before it hits the ground it is an out.\n   -a hit ball is an out if it's catched before it touches the ground. If the ball hit the ground it can get a player out if it reaches the base before the player.\n   -Homerun, the ball leaves the park in the area marked between the foul lines. All the players in the bases (including the player at bat) get to score a run and they HAVE to walk through all the bases (from the base each currently stands on to home)\n* You can steal base -> run from 1st to 2nd or 2nd to 3rd while the ball is being pitched to home.\n* Players on the field and on the bases can be switched around as many times as desired. \n* Usually you get starter pitchers and closer pitches.\n* In baseball 1 run difference is enough to win the game. If it is the 9th inning, and the home team is winning once the visiting team has its 3 outs the game is over. If the game is tied and it is the last inning, the home team turn and there is a run scored the game ends regardless of outs.\n\n***** Once you get a basic understanding of the game you have to start watching some games to get a better grasp of it. Most tv stations broadcast the city's home team games. There will be some things you don't get, ask your BF about them. Specially in pitching there are many different ways to pitch a ball and you can get to identify them once you watch tons of games. \n\n***** ALSO - find out the team your BF is going to be playing with, read about them, which players they have, who's their best player, their stats, their standings, etc.. Checkout the MLB website for team sites. http://mlb.mlb.com\nFind out if there are any teams out there with famous rivalries (NY Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox). For most of the teams the official website will give you tons of usefull information and stats.\n\n* The MLB site also has an explanation on all the stats that are kept for the different positions. For the pitchers the ERA is the most important: Earned Run Average (ERA): Multiply the total number of earned runs by nine, and divide the results by the total innings pitched. (also explained in detail on the MLB website)\n\n* The MLB has a very easy graphical explanation on Baseball basics (select from the left hand side menu) http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/baseball_basics/on_the_field.jsp\n\nEnjoy the game!!!
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http://www.baseballcorner.com/batguide.asp
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I found this article I hope it helps ya. or are quizzing us. ;)\n\nPittsfield uncovers earliest written reference to gameAssociated Press\n\n\nPITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Officials and historians in this western Massachusetts city released a 213-year-old document Tuesday that they believe is the earliest written reference to baseball.\n\nThe evidence comes in a 1791 bylaw that aims to protect the windows in Pittsfield's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building.\n\nThat bylaw would have been produced well before Abner Doubleday is said to have written the rules for the game in 1839.\n\nHistorian John Thorn was doing research on the origins of baseball when he found a reference to the bylaw in an 1869 book on Pittsfield's history.\n\nHe shared his find with former major leaguer and area resident Jim Bouton, who told city officials about the ordinance.\n\nA librarian found the actual document in a vault at the Berkshire Athenaeum library. Its age was authenticated by researchers at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center.\n\n"It's clear that not only was baseball played here in 1791, but it was rampant," Thorn said. "It was rampant enough to have an ordinance against it."\n\nThe long-accepted story of baseball's origins centers around Cooperstown, N.Y., where Doubleday is said to have come up with the rules for the modern game.\n\nThat legend long legitimized the Baseball Hall of Fame's presence in Cooperstown, although later evidence pointed to the first real game being played in Hoboken, N.J., in 1846.\n\nIn 2001, a librarian at New York University came across two newspaper articles published on April 25, 1823, that show an organized form of a game called "base ball" was being played in Manhattan.\n\nThe Pittsfield group hopes their find puts to rest the debate about the game's origins.\n\n"Pittsfield is baseball's Garden of Eden," Mayor James Ruberto said.\n\nBut experts say it may be impossible to say exactly where and when baseball was created because it evolved from earlier games, such as cricket and rounders, another English game played with a bat and ball.\n\n"There's no way of pinpointing where the game was first played," said Jeff Idelson, a spokesman for the Hall of Fame. "Baseball wasn't really born anywhere."\n\nStill, Idelson said if the Pittsfield group's document is authentic, it would be "incredibly monumental."\n\nPittsfield might be a sensible home for the sport. Some historians have documented "the Massachusetts game" as a precursor to modern baseball, where runners were thrown out if they were hit by a ball.\n\nBouton, whose decade-long career as a pitcher included stints with the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, lives in nearby Egremont and is helping to restore Pittsfield's Wahconah Park, the former home of several minor league teams. He hopes the discovery helps bring attention to the project.\n\n"We thought this was a lucky stroke," said Bouton, whose 1970 book "Ball Four" offered a scandalous look behind the scenes of professional baseball. "I'm sure Pittsfield will live off this for a while."\n\nFor now, the document will be kept in a vault until city officials figure out how to properly display it. A copy will be hung at Wahconah Park, one of the nation's oldest ballparks.
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I love baseball, but I have no idea what you are actually asking.
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Try baseball-almanac.com
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Baseball Prospectus\nFantasy Land\nMind Games\nBaseball America\nMoneyball\n\nBaseball Prospectus is, by far, the best place to get info on players. It's based heavily on statistics and made by guys who really know what they're talking about. \n\nFantasyland is a book about a guy who decided to get into fasntasy baseball for the first time. He hires a major league scout and a mathematician to help him out and talks to a lot of major league players\n\nMind Games is a book about the 2004  Red Sox and the things they did to win the World Series. \n\nBaseball America is a book talking about the 30 top prospects from every team. It's a must for every fan of the minor leagues. \n\nMoneyball is the book that made statistics popular again.
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Wikipedia is usually good, just type the players name into the search box.\n\nIf you need a list of players from a team, Baseball Library is better.
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Here ya go:\n\nhttp://www.netstupidity.com/game/Backyard_Baseball/80/
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Depending on the side of the ball you come from... Based on the way things are going?  Payroll  Because you can buy a great team and build a winning tradition.  The team may not win the World Series every year but they will always be in contention.\n\nIf you want real stats from a analitical point on players:\n\nTraditionally, statistics like batting average for batters (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (approximately the number of runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings) have governed the statistical world of baseball. However, the advent of sabermetrics brought an onslaught of new statistics that better gauge a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year.\n\nSome sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world. Among statistics that do an excellent job of measuring a batter's performance, On-base plus slugging (OPS) is the easiest to calculate. It adds the hitter's on base percentage ([hits + walks + number of times hit by pitches] divided by [number of times at bat + walks + number of times hit by a pitch + number of sacrifice flies]) to his or her slugging percentage (total bases divided by at bats). Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP (on base percentage). Regardless, OPS still stands as the most direct means of evaluating a hitter's performance using readily available statistics.
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Check out the National Adult Baseball Association (www.dugout.com) or the Men's Adult Baseball League (www.msblnational.com)\nBoth have leagues across the country and both websites can help put you in contact with one in your area. They both have different competitive levels and can be a lot of fun.
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Use our feedback link - \n\nhttp://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/baseballp/cgi_feedback\n\nto find out about the status of minor leaguers moving up into the majors and so forth. We have a dedicated staff who monitor all the position changes and update the players in the game. What player are you thinking of in particular?
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Not sure which championship you are looking for or which of the several papers in the area would help....so here is a couple links to baseball championships for that era and a full listing of newspapers in the area.\n\nGood Luck
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Beckett Baseball mag. has alot of info on the what to collect and why.  If you are just starting out I would start by asking your local shops that deal in cards and ask them why they sugest these cards.  Most of them will be happy to tell you and help you in collecting.
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This will help you: \n http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml
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Try finding the answer here.\nhttp://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/features/experts/11_15_00.stm
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The following websites give complete information about cricket,\nlaws of cricket etc.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket\n\nhttp://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ABOUT_CRICKET/EXPLANATION/EXPLANATION_OF_CRICKET.html#extras
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Main article: History of Baseball \nBaseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders). The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, they began playing a World Series that year.