those are called "emoticons"
Internet for Beginners has a top 100 Emoticon List, look for an article called Emoticons and Smiley's 101. Wikipedia also has an article called List of emoticons which may help.
emoticons
There are probably emoticons out there for baseball. Many websites provide different emoticons, I would suggest Googling emoticons.
All the faces on Gmail are called as Emoticons. These emoticons contains many emotions. These might include happy, sad , crying, angry etc.
Smileys are more properly called emoticons. They are those little text symbols that represent a face -- for example is someone smiling (tilt your head to the left to see it better)
I think they are called GIF`S, at least it says in wiki that gif`s can be moving animations.
you can make your own emoticons
emoticons
Tapestries .
Its is called Pu Yo hu
emoticons of the mobile himselve, and they are really ugly :(