Baseball

The Bridgeport Sound Tigers are the farm team to the New York Islanders. The arena is located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

2 Baseball fields are in South Korea because it is not popular there

This answer is really wrong. Actually, there are 9 pro baseball field for pro league and hundered of field for amature baseball teams. Baseball is one of top sports in southkorea and most popular sports.

I am not exactly sure what the average yearly in salary. You have to remember that they, as well as their families, get to fly on first class private airplanes with the team, stay in the best 5-star hotels with the team, and are alotted the same meal money per day while on the road, which is $200. So they make $16,200 a year in meal money alone. This answer is really way off. Most organizations don't allow the family to travel on there charters, but some do. The plane is NOT 1st class but rather a regular plane that you would take on a commercial flight. You do have access to the stewards at your becon call and you will have both upgraded food and drinks and all that you want. Meal money just a few years ago was $70 per day but that could have changed but I doubt to $200 per day. Most real good organizations will pay a bullpen catcher somewhere around $40,000 to $50,000 per season and will also throw in minor league insurance which help a lot. If the team is in the top 3 in there division then the team will get so many shares to distribute to not only the players and some of the coaches but to assistant trainers, grounds crew and anyone else that has helped throughout the year. A bullpen catcher may get anywhere from a fixed amount of $10,000 all the way up to a full share if the players that have been active the whole year vote it in. A full share could be anywhere around $400,000 if they win the World Series. Lastly, the pitchers that use the bullpen catcher usually will give him a tip at the end of the season which could be anywhere from $100 all the way up to $100,000. Hope this helps.

Luis Aparicio wore #11 with the Boston Red Sox.

The batter is only out on a dropped third strike when there are less than two outs and first base was occupied at the start of the pitch. With two outs the batter may take first base on a dropped third strike even if it was occupied at the start of the pitch.

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Baseball's origin traced to Massachusetts Document found in Pittsfield could be earliest written reference to sport; Cooperstown shakes off discovery Staff and Wire Report Move over Cooperstown. Another city is claiming to be the home of baseball. Although this is nothing new. "We stopped laying claim to being the birthplace of baseball a long time ago," National Baseball Hall of Fame spokesman Jeff Idelson said. "Cooperstown is one of the earliest places it was played. The game evolved over time, it wasn't born in one place." Officials and historians in the western Massachusetts city of Pittsfield released a 213-year-old document Tuesday that they believe is the earliest written reference to baseball. Advertisement Their pitch to rewrite the sport's history is based on a 1791 ordinance that aims to protect the windows in Pittsfield's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building. "It's clear that not only was baseball played here in 1791, but it was rampant," baseball historian John Thorn said Tuesday at a City Hall news conference to announce the find. "It was rampant enough to have an ordinance against it." The document - dug out of an archive vault at the Berkshire Athenaeum library in Pittsfield - is the earliest known written reference to baseball, predating the next known documentation of the game by three decades. "Pittsfield is baseball's Garden of Eden," Mayor James Ruberto said. But it was an Eden that was stumbled upon accidentally by a historian with insomnia. Unable to sleep one night, Thorn took to the Internet to research a book he was writing on the origins of baseball. That's when he found a reference to the Pittsfield ordinance cited in an 1869 book on Pittsfield's history. Thorn sat on the information for about a year, until he met former major league pitcher Jim Bouton at a baseball conference in April. "If I made a big deal of the find myself, it would've been seen as self-promotional," said Thorn, author of "Total Baseball" and several other books on the sport. Bouton, who lives in nearby Egremont and is helping to organize a restoration of Pittsfield's Wahconah Park baseball field, prompted city officials to hunt down the original ordinance. Bouton is the author of the 1970 book "Ball Four," which offered a scandalous look at pro baseball. "We knew we had the document catalogued in our vault," said Ron Latham, director of the Berkshire Athenaeum. "But we didn't necessarily appreciate the significance of it." The document, well-preserved if not a bit yellowed around the edges, was authenticated by researchers at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, who dated the paper and ink to 1791. "Over the last few decades, more and more research is being uncovered, which is all pertinent to explain how baseball has been part of Americana," Idelson said. "It's certainly believable, but it remains to be authenticated. If the documentation is legitimate, we're hopeful to at least obtain a copy for our research library." For now, the ordinance will be tucked back in the vault until city officials figure out how to properly display it. A copy will be hung at Wahconah Park. The long-accepted and recently disputed story of baseball's origins centers around Cooperstown, where Abner Doubleday is said to have come up with the rules for the modern game in 1839. That legend long legitimized the National 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. And in 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. The Pittsfield group said they hope their find will put to rest once and for all the debate about the game's origins, but they acknowledge it may just be a matter of time before they're one-upped by another town. "Pittsfield is baseball's birthplace until further notice," Thorn said. "We know that baseball was like a field of dandelions in the late 1700s and early 1800s - it was growing up everywhere." Experts say it may be impossible to ever say exactly where and when the game was created because it evolved from earlier games, such as cricket and rounders, English games played with a bat and ball. "There's no way of pinpointing where the game was first played," Idelson said. "Baseball wasn't really born anywhere." But Pittsfield 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. Bouton, whose decade-long career as a pitcher included stints with the New York Yankees and Houston Astros, is betting that the discovery will bring attention to Wahconah Park, one of the nation's oldest ballparks and the former home of several minor league teams. "We thought this was a lucky stroke," Bouton said. "I'm sure Pittsfield will live off this for a while." Said Idelson: "That's what's great about us as a country. We're never satisfied until we can dig deeper and deeper until we find the truth. All of these findings are significant. They help define baseball even more." From http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/4954063

When runners are on base, pitchers generally tend to pitch out of the stretch, meaning that they shorten the time it takes to prepare and throw a pitch. This is done to prevent base runners from stealing base. When there are no runners on base, pitchers tend to pitch out of the wind up.

There are two leagues:American and National. American League has 14 teams and the National League has 16. They both have three divisions of 4-6 teams:East, Central, and West. Here are the teams in each division:

AL East- New York Yankees(NYY), Boston Red Sox(BOS), Tampa Bay Rays(TB), Toronto Blue Jays(TOR), Baltimore Orioles(BAL)

AL Central-Minnesota Twins9MIN), Chicago White Sox(CHW), Detriot Tigers(DET), Kansas City Royals(KC), Cleveland Indians(CLE)

AL West-Texas Rangers(TEX), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim(LAA), Oakland Athletics(OAK), Seattle Mariners(SEA)

NL East-Philadelphia Phillies(PHI), New York Mets(NYM), Atlanta Braves(ATL), Washington Nationals(WAS), Florida Marlins(FLA)

NL Central-St. Louis Cardinals(STL), Cincinnati Reds(CIN), Chicago Cubs(CHC), Milwaukee Brewers(MIL), Houston Astros(HOU), Pittsburgh Pirates(PIT)

NL West-Los Angeles Dodgers(LAD), San Francisco Giants(SF), Colorado Rockies(COL), San Diego Padres(SD), Arizona Diamondbacks(ARI)

The major difference of the two leagues is in the National League, the pitcher whoever is in must bat, but in the American League they have a hitter who takes the pitchers spot in the lineup and is known as the Designated Hitter. The thing to know about it is the Designated Hitter(DH) does not play the field and stays in the dugout and he only bats. Hopefully this all helps you out.

Using an average life span of a baseball in a typical game as 6 pitches and the average number of pitches being 275 per game. The number of balls used is 46. Factoring this number out to each team in the league playing 165 games and dividing by 2 since two teams play each other each game, the number of baseballs used during a typical MLB season would about 113,850 balls per year.

According to MLB, between five and six dozen are used per game (60-70 balls).

The home team has to have 90 new baseballs on hand for each game. That doesn't mean they'll use them all, but they must have them, just in case.

The average life of the ball is 6 pitches. "According to Ensley, every major league game begins with six dozen balls. He goes on to explain that the average life of a ball is six pitches. Since most major league games average between 250 and 300 pitches, that would put the ball count at about 40 or 50 balls used per game".

According to the MLB: "It says between five and six dozen baseballs are used during each baseball game, as many as 72 balls."

Each ball costs about $3-dollars, so that works out to $216-dollars worth of balls for each baseball game.

Using an average life span of a baseball in a typical game as 6 pitches and the average number of pitches being 275 per game. The number of balls used is 46. Factoring this number out to each team in the league playing 165 games and dividing by 2 since two teams play each other each game, the number of baseballs used during a typical MLB season would about 113,850 balls per year.

The home team bats in the bottom of the inning.

The term ducks on the pond originated from a radio sports announcer for the Washington Senators named Arch McDonald. Among other quotes by Arch was "there it goes Mrs. Murphy" was meant a home run

When you say "football" I will assume you mean "soccer" since you are speaking the English language and in the home of the English language (England) the game that involves kicking a ball into two goals is called the correct term - football. Football is over 300 years old yet baseball isn't even older than 200 years in any form so clearly football is older.

No, the Little League rule book specifically prohibits this. In fact, it goes so far as to say the president can't resign his position and coach a tournament team in the same season.

Hold is a statistic for relief pitchers. It means the pitcher came into the game with his team in the lead and left the game with his team in the lead. In other words, the pitcher 'held' the lead for his team.

In Major League Baseball, the bases are 90' apart. The distance from home plate to the nearest fence is 250' or more.

There really is no need to wear a helmet if you're just watching. Foul balls do sometimes pop over fences, but most parks have nets and it is unlikely you will get hit by a ball.

If you are playing, it is necessary to wear a helmet while batting.

No money becasue they would just be the top winning team

A golf ball would be hit further, due to the law of the conservation of momentum. This law is one of the fundamental laws of nature, and states, "The total momentum of a closed system of objects is constant." This means that when two objects (like a bat and a ball) collide, the momentum of both objects before the collision and after the collision will be the same.

Momentum, by the way, is the amount of force a moving object has. Big objects that are moving fast have a lot of momentum. Small objects that are moving slow have very little momentum.

The equation for a collision of two objects goes like this:

(1/2)m1u12 + (1/2)m2u22 =(1/2)m1v12 + (1/2)m2v22

Let's work on this equation...

m1 = The mass of the baseball bat = 30 oz

u1 = The velocity of the baseball bat before the collision = 80 mph for a Major League player swing

m2 = The mass of the ball = 5 oz for a baseball, 1.6 oz for a golfball

u2 = The velocity of the ball before the collision = 0 mph

v1 = The velocity of the bat after the collision = 0 mph (not entirely accurate, but close enough for this model)

That leaves...

v2 = The velocity of the ball after the collision

v2 is what we want to find. Let's start plugging in numbers. First, for the baseball:

(1/2)m1u12 + (1/2)m2u22 =(1/2)m1v12 + (1/2)m2v22

(1/2)(30 oz)(80 mph)2 + (1/2)(5 oz)(0 mph)2 =(1/2)(30 oz)(0 mph)2 + (1/2)(5 oz)v22 (96000) + 0 = 0 + (2.5)(v2)2

96000 = 2.5(v2)2

96000 / 2.5 = v22

38400 = v22

v2 (The speed of the baseball after being hit) = 196 mph

Now, for the golf ball. The golf ball weighs less than the baseball, so to make both sides of the equation even, it will need to travel much faster after being hit.

(1/2)m1u12 + (1/2)m2u22 =(1/2)m1v12 + (1/2)m2v22

(1/2)(30 oz)(80 mph)2 + (1/2)(1.6 oz)(0 mph)2 =(1/2)(30 oz)(0 mph)2 + (1/2)(1.6 oz)v22 (96000) + 0 = 0 + (0.8)(v2)2

96000 = 0.8(v2)2

96000 / 0.8 = v22

120000 = v22

v2 (The speed of the golf ball after being hit) = 346 mph!

That's a big difference! And of course, the ball that is hit fastest will travel the furthest, assuming both balls were hit at the same angle.

Now, this is just a model. In real life, the balls or bats may weigh different, and the batters may swing fast or slow. Also, golf balls are much harder to hit than baseballs.

You can try an experiment at home that shows the law of conservation of momentum. Make sure you're outside first! Try putting a golf ball or tennis ball on top of a basketball or softball. Hold both balls at arms length, and drop them on the ground. The big ball will bounces just a little bit, but since it is big, it has a lot of momentum. When it hits the small ball, it will give that little ball all of its momentum, and the small ball will fly sky high!

History states that Ty Cobb fought several umpires during his career, none on the field of play. This was at a time when umpires were shown very little respect and it was not unusual for players to attempt to intimidate umpires on the field.

If players tried to do something like that in today's game they would be suspended immediately and probably for a very long time.

NO ... Spanish people come from Spain ... Alex Rodriguez is from the Dominican Republic and if you remember from your third grade text books the Dominican Republic and its neighboring Country (Haiti) are called Hispaniola which would make Alex Rodriguez Hispanic ...

When the umpire or TV announcer calls the ball and strike count, the balls come first. If you hear the announcer say something like "The count on the batter is 2 and 1" this means there are 2 balls and 1 strike.

It's white,round,with a hard texture, and small

HOPE I HELPED!!

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i think that thats a big hellp alittle you should try to improve your answer move like you should say a little more than a sentence

Streek, or whatever else they want; each umpire has his own style.